Workplaces are an area where we spend thousands of hours every year at. It then becomes natural that with all that time we spend there, there is bound to be drama and juicy stories all around.
Today, we have tens of stories of that caliber of people sharing their wildest, craziest, and most shocking workplace drama stories. Hang in for the ride.
1. Person Of Interest
A dude in the area took his wife’s life, brought her to my company’s parking garage, and set her on fire. I noticed something was up when someone ran out with a fire extinguisher, then the fire dept came, and then the police.
Wasn’t hard to catch the guy of course but it so happened my coworker was taking a nap in his car… in the parking garage… right next to where the aforementioned postmortem spousal desecration occurred.
Slightly longer story slightly shorter, we didn’t see him for a few hours, obviously got kinda worried given the situation, only to find out he’d been woken up and informed he was momentarily a person of interest in a first-degree murder.
Son_Of_Toucan_Sam
2. The bag man
A guy I worked with was at an old lady's house to do some electrical work and he had to move a bookshelf. When he moved it a bag fell and landed on his foot, breaking one of his toes.
When he looked into the bag he saw that it was full of gigantic pleasure toys. When he reported the incident to the company he wrote: "A literal bag of “cucumbers” crushed my foot."
Those incident reports go all the way to the CEO of the company, and when he was visiting our office one time he asked us where he could find the fella with the cucumber bag.
TbeLu
3. Excavate yourself out of a job
The guy I replaced at my heavy equipment job was fired because apparently, he was “flirting around” in his excavator at night during the 6 pm-6 am shift.
Nobody knew about it until he accidentally sent particular pictures and videos to our boss instead of his girlfriend.
They literally hired a company to come steam clean the cab of that CAT 390 because nobody had full knowledge of what else he did in that cab.
The_Waco_Kid_Jim
4. This is not a movie!
I work in a manufacturing factory that uses a lot of robots to assemble pieces together. The machinery has all sorts of cages, barriers, and safety lockouts to prevent people from injuring themselves.
One day, a box had gotten stuck inside the machine and wouldn't come out. So a worker disabled every safety mechanism and started crawling through a narrow path in the equipment so that he could clear the box from being jammed.
It was similar to the size of a ventilation shaft in a Die Hard movie. Not surprising to say but as soon as management found out, he got fired immediately.
CPOx
5. Spatula Human
My dad worked for a place that makes nuclear subs for the government. Once, he was asked to clean up a mess left by a fatal accident. It was a large thing shaped sort of like a vending machine that had fallen over onto a guy.
My dad said he could pick up the remains with a spatula. It was....just terrible.
Afterwards, he found out the person he was cleaning up was his next-door neighbor whom he had known for many years.
Technically, the employer says the worker passed away in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Was that the truth? Who knows…
cindyscrazy
6. Balls of gas
Police came to inspect all the gas pipes in our labs, looking at the ease of accessibility, and recent output. That was when the drama started.
Turns out that the doctor who had been getting a lot of sympathy after his wife and daughter died in a car that was filled with carbon monoxide had in fact filled two giant exercise balls with the gas, creating a slow leak in them, and put them in the car she drove.
Also, someone once disposed of chemicals in the wrong container and there was a significant explosion in the waste room. Luckily no one was in there and no one got hurt.
Physical-Primary-256
7. Lasso Barbara
A lovely senior coworker of mine, Barbara. She had full-blown ADHD but she was super peppy, loved talking to people, and decorated the office and everything.
One day I’m going out with another group of my coworkers and we turn to say goodbye. Babs jumps up from her seat. “You ladies heading out for a party? Without me? I can be fun too, y’know!”
In the span of two seconds, she undoes her bra from underneath her shirt, whips it out from one sleeve, and lassos it around. Her boss is sitting right behind her in a cubicle with fully transparent glass walls.
We hastily say our goodbyes and urge her to put her bra away before she gets in trouble. She reluctantly tucks it away in her bag.
She was fired shortly afterward because she frequently misplaced things, forgot to schedule appointments, and needed reminders for just about everything. I miss her a lot.
shutapples
8. Dog snitch
This didn't happen to me but a coworker brought her dog into work and it immediately raced towards the new intern guy (who no one really knew that well yet) and started jumping all over him and trying to get him to pick him up.
The guy joked about having bacon in his pocket but we all suspected our coworker was being intimate with the intern. And we were right.
dramioneff
9. Twin Black Eyes
My female boss was being intimate with her male boss in the parking garage. She was working late and her cell phone was off when my boss's husband came looking for her and found them in her car.
A huge fight ensued so far as I heard from the garage security guy. My boss and her boss both had black eyes the next day at work.
I didn't get to see what the husband looked like but I’m sure he had a black eye of his own. Both bosses continued their jobs like it never happened.
austeninbosten
10. Hottub Fiasco
I have a few stories to shock you. One time, we had a team building day and the CEO made it so his team won. The 3 married people (not to each other) got intimate in the hot tub.
There was also the VP who was having an affair with his secretary so he decided to get “rid” of his wife in a gruesome way and he threw the evidence in the company trash.
Another time, there was a guy who was trying to bankrupt a division of the company so his equity company could buy it. When caught he threatened to punish everyone.
diegojones4
11. First comes fun, and next comes the betrayal
I am a Quality Manager and was hired by a little capital equity group to go in and try to help out struggling businesses that they buy. Great job.
I'm working with a pump company - a big manufacturing group that makes pumps for city water suppliers, chlorine mixers, big machines to add chemicals and filter sewer lines, public pools...big stuff.
On paper, the company should have been profitable but they were losing crazy amounts of money. Sales were strong, margins high but they couldn't make ends meet.
We go in and start digging. We uncovered a LOT of crap, borderline fraud, and just incompetence. One thing we found was the HR Manager and the Engineering Manager were going to trade shows, conferences, and training together every 3 weeks or so.
We thought it was weird to take an HR lady to a trade show or a conference on pump design. We did some digging and found expense reports and airline receipts that didn't match up and hotels near conferences that were canceled or didn't exist.
Basically, they were taking romantic getaways to have an affair and writing up close to $175k on company expense reports by claiming bogus business trips.
Things like a romantic week in Maui, a 4-day weekend at the Waldorf-Astoria in NYC, Skiing in Vermont, Cancun, so many trips to Miami we couldn't even keep them straight, Cottage in Park City UT, a dude ranch in NM....it was insane.
All with fake conferences nearby or conferences that they paid for but never even showed up and signed in. And this is the messed up part. As soon as it all came out, HR fired the engineering manager and was like Oh yeah that was all his idea and we kept the HR Manager on for another year or so.
Angelfire150
12. Uno-Reverse
Oh, dear Lord, I am friends with an HR attorney for a large agency. So so many stories but possibly my favorite is one where they walked in and fired one woman for dereliction of duty as soon as she showed up for her shift.
Like she was horrible at her job and barely performed, she was probational and it was clearly not working out. My friend and her boss then leave for lunch and when they return, they discover the employee is back on campus and working like nothing happened. Even greeted them at the gates.
They are shocked and ask why she’s there when she’s been terminated. The employee answered “I’m working you can’t just fire me. This is my job.” And proceeds to turn around, ignore them, and keep working.
They again repeat she’s been terminated and she needs to go. She says “I reject that, I don’t accept your termination.” She literally had to almost be dragged out. It was quite entertaining.
Similar_Candidate789
13. Toxic Patterns
Two concurrent office dramas that resulted in a mass firing. First, my boss, a man in his late thirties, an ex-middle school teacher, hired and then knocked up an 18-year-old he used to teach.
This is after he showed up to work a month before with a black eye, a gift from the baby daddy of the other employee he was sleeping with. He was fired, divorced, and estranged from his own teenage children.
Meanwhile, his office enemy, another department director, was fired for paying her own employee to be her child surrogate.
Diabolicaldessert
14. Payback Time
Normal scandal. The owner left his wife for his secretary. But—-the wife owned 50% of the company and she made him pay through the nose for it. He was a total stereotype!
The company had become really prosperous, so he started working out and got a really expensive sports car (Lamborghini, I think).
Then he dumped his wife, was publicly involved with the secretary, left his company to be run by other people, and ran off to California, married, and had kids. He was kind of a jerk before that anyway.
LimeSkye
15. “Miracle” baby
The receptionist and the land administrator had an affair and she got pregnant. Her husband had had a vasectomy years earlier. The office affair ended, and the receptionist and her husband maintained that it was a miracle from God.
It’s a small town and everyone knew about the affair. It was a big scandal. The receptionist and the land administrator were both kicked out of the church they belonged to.
Publicly, the receptionist and her husband pretended nothing had happened and that this was a wonderful surprise. But everyone knew it was not likely to be the husband’s child.
Binky103
16. Not on the prep table
One shift lead was having an affair with another shift lead girl at work. They both opened the store in the morning and before any customers arrived they would then get intimate on the prep table.
One day when I had to check the cameras for something, I was watching it on fast forward starting from that morning and was shocked to see them doing it lol. I watched it for a bit before spilling the beans to my manager.
team-tree-syndicate
17. No space, no problem
I worked for a major fast-food chain for a bit, and our Store Manager was fooling around with our Assistant Manager who was married. It was a well-known thing in our store.
They supposedly did it in the store which was weird because it was in a mall so we didn't really have extra space. Everyone's best guess was that they were grabbing a quicky in the walk-in fridge before people showed up.
slip309
18. Not your cup of tea
New HR lady. Veeeeery pretty. Looks like a shorter and slightly less stacked Jessica rabbit. All the boys in sales are interested, and there is some macho crap generally brewing between them, which is highly unusual for our workplace.
None of them have actually asked her out yet because if they did that and she said no, they'd be out of the running, so it's just a lot of 20something-year-old guys being bolshy in a way that is sort of deniable.
One Friday their normal pub was full so they went looking slightly further afield for their normal Friday lunch pint (this is normal in our industry) and ended up in a pub on the other side of town.
That’s where they spotted Jessica, the Rabbit HR lady. She was in a romantic entanglement with the lady from the front desk. And thus were many egos swiftly deflated.
Haunting-blade
19. Royal Screwup
A new guy joins the firm. Call him Ross. Ross is freshly divorced. Ross ends up hooking up with one of the firm's newest partners at a big firm party. We'll call her Rachel. They seemed very happy together, buying a house, getting a dog, etc.
Two years later, the same party is thrown again, but Rachel has a family thing so Ross goes solo. No biggie. Thereafter, Ross starts working really late.
This isn't surprising, Ross isn't great at his job and has been on thin ice with the partner he works under for a while, who we will call Chandler. Ross often works so late that he says there isn't much time to come home, so sleeps on Joey's couch, a friend of his who works in the same department and happens to have a flat right next to the office. No biggie, right? Wrong.
One of these nights Ross is working late, and Rachel gets a call from the fire department. Apparently, Ross had just been cut out of his totaled car. He had crashed it with a woman in it with him in a state of undress.
The woman in question is Phoebe, one of Rachel's direct reports, and ...Phoebe is married to Chandler. This all happened like less than 3 months ago, BTW.
Rachel had a crying yelling fit in the office which sort of clued in everyone who didn't know. Ross has resigned, Phoebe and Chandler are divorcing, and I don't know how their settlement will pan out.
On the Ross/Rachel side, everything was in Rachel's name so Ross is screwed. Oh, and he’s also banned from driving for 3 years.
Haunting-blade
20. Too weird
My boss’s husband in my first job thought I was sleeping with his wife. He kept calling the office and using a weird accent to see if I was at work with her.
Then one day he called me to meet at the pub to apologize for it. I resigned shortly after as it was just too weird. Plus she was hardcore religious and kept accusing me of being a “pothead” and of stealing. None of the accusations were accurate.
Comfortable-Regret64
21. Offices are for work
I used to work at a tech startup, you know the type with lots of nap pods, a relaxed, company culture, and an open bar after work hours.
One evening CEO, head of HR, head of sales, and I had just returned from a business trip and returned to the office to collect some stuff.
When we got there, we found three of the staff members having a fun night in the conference room next to the CEO’s office. They were all fired and all married. 1 of them even tried to sue for wrongful termination.
sam_873
22. You should have shut up
Two of my co-workers hooked up, and then he told a bunch of people. Because she was much more attractive than him people didn't believe him, so he showed us a picture of the two of them, being intimate.
She was not aware of the existence of this picture and did not want him to show it to people. Eventually, HR got involved, he got fired, and she got reassigned to another department.
Makabajones
23. Houdini
This really high-up VP at our company just.....disappeared. He didn’t quit, he wasn’t fired, but it’s been 4 months and no one has seen or heard from him.
He just vanished into thin air, dropped completely off of social media, no one knows if he’s dead or alive. The kicker is HR found out he’d been charging personal trips to his company card and he owes the company $28k+.
They’ve launched an investigation and are trying to find him. We’re all following with bated breath to see how this crazy tale ends.
pascalines
24. I know the truth
I work at a daycare. Our current director is in some hot water after being accused of sleeping with several of the married employees. We have one man on the entire staff and it’s our director.... he’s also refusing to step down.
After this came out some parents have said the same thing. I don’t how many married women he’s been with but it's easily over 9. That’s just married women!
Oh and here’s the kicker. I know he’s been with more women than that because, surprise surprise, I’ve slept with him too.
[deleted]
25. What could have happened?
I work remotely so on a local level, my fat, lazy cat is up in arms about her new healthier diet and makes sure to tell me about it.
On a more regional level, one of our other remote consultants was fired recently. We know we're not supposed to ask why and management isn't allowed to tell us...but firings are super rare in our department and you have to mess up really, really bad. Our imaginations are going wild.
viciouscabaret
26. Milking Barn Drama
One of our farmhands is having an illicit love affair with one of our milkers, and they fully think we don't know about it.
They're both married to women and keep disappearing in the barn together and we've also noticed our dipping agent stocks being very low lately.
Also, the wife of our neighboring farmer has been cheating with the local guard (police officer), and the entire community is absolutely scandalized and up in arms about it.
LDN_Escort
27. She messed up badly
Alright, here goes: Female Officer (mother of 1, not married) hooks up with a male officer (no kids, not married). She’s cheating on him with a sergeant (child status unknown, married) whose wife is also a sergeant where all 4 of them work.
The male officer finds out she’s cheating on him, so he dumps her. She goes to the male sergeant and says “Leave your wife and it’ll just be me and you.”
He says “My wife found out about us but she’s willing to take me back as long as I agree to go to marriage counseling. "So, you and I are done.” Now she’s pregnant but doesn’t know by who (or so she says.)
[deleted]
28. It wasn’t that deep
I work in a place where we come across a good number of federal officers as customers. One of my workmates dumped her live-in boyfriend after being intimate with several aforementioned officers behind his back.
The officer she chose as her next boyfriend told her he was only after their arranged intimacy and he was basically looking to be a playboy and have as many hot girls as possible, cue lots of drama and crying.
So awkward to look him in the eyes now, as his public persona is of this super serious, picture postcard model officer.
littleblackcat
29. Afternoon Delight
Well to set the scene, I work in a recruitment company and it's mostly women staff which is great and we all get on fabulously.
We obviously get a lot of clients and people looking for jobs through our doors and quite often we'll get a really nice-looking guy come through our doors, all dressed up in a suit for a pre-interview before we put them forward for roles with our clients.
There is this one guy that comes in quite regularly, very handsome and seems quite smart and intelligent but we're always a bit curious why he keeps coming in if he's continually looking for a job.
He has one of the girls looking after him in terms of liaising with clients and putting him forward for roles and at times they'll go out of the office to the local coffee place to discuss his CV and such.
A few of us girls think there is something going on there and it's all starting to add up. She's often more dressed up when he's due to come in, there's a bit of winking and nodding going on, and they've been seen in his car together.
Probably the telltale sign is she'll often fix her makeup just after seeing him. I'm willing to bet there is some afternoon delight going on there but don't want to be the one to snitch on her at all, plus she is lovely.
[deleted]
30. Why Us?
My boyfriend and I met at work. When we met, there was a strict “no-dating” policy in place that later got lifted. After it was lifted, we began dating, and per the new policy, we reported our relationship to our direct supervisor.
Even though the only person we informed was our direct supervisor, by the next day, our entire workplace knew about us. And they were hateful.
We were discriminated against, ostracized, and made to follow a different set of rules than everyone else. We were also no longer scheduled to work directly together, and when I asked my supervisor if the policy stated we couldn’t, he said that that wasn’t part of the policy and denied treating us differently.
We were also counted collectively as “one person,” so that if we both expressed the same opinion, it was treated as the word of one person instead of the word of two. It got so bad that we both eventually quit that job.
A month later, I found out on Facebook that two more people from the same workplace have started dating. Except this time, the man involved in the relationship is married. And everyone was congratulating the new couple, praising them for how “cute” they were together.
I’ll never understand why my boyfriend and I got so much hate coming forward with our relationship when a married man can be congratulated for doing the same thing.
PsychedelicGoat42
31. Glad I’m leaving
I'm leaving my job at a pretty critical time and my last day is Friday. My manager is only just coming to the realization that she won't have me so she's been in a rotten mood.
I gave her a month's notice and she only just replaced me late last week. I met the guy once and asked him if I would be training him this week and he had no idea.
It's a big mess and everyone is having problems with her right now. It makes me glad I’m leaving this place. Everything is messy.
dearmissally
32. One for all
I just got hired as an administrative assistant last month. I work in a small department within a medium-sized school within a huge university, so I should just be a tiny cog in the machine, right?
Well, apparently my being hired has pissed off quite a few people. It turns out that my department head sacrificed part of his operational budget in order to pay my salary and convinced the dean to let him have an assistant.
Other department heads within our school are now upset that they don't have an assistant and feel my boss is getting special treatment. I only know about all this because my boss gave me a heads-up that I might hear some unpleasant things said about him.
He also said that the other department heads might try to dump some of their work on me, as they seem to think they should all share me. It's been a fun month.
spider_party
33. Not you too, pastor
Not work-related but I used to live in a rural Northern European town (my parents still live there). The population is rather religious and everybody knows everybody’s business.
The minister at my church cheated on his wife and the mother of his three children. It was the talk of the town for weeks and weeks.
Needless to say, he had to give up his job as a minister and is now working as a bin man. Talk about the fall of a great man. It’s almost sad to witness.
[deleted]
34. Serial Liar
One male coworker (J) left his fiancé (R) and immediately started dating another female coworker (P). Before leaving his fiancé J would complain about R saying she was over-emotional and a lazy slob who never picked up after herself.
We believe before the breakup, R sensed something was going on between J and P and she added another one of our coworkers (M) on FB, P’s friend, and started talking to her.
The break up happens and of course, R is very upset and starts messaging M, dishing her all the dirt. M repeats the dirt and now we all know what a liar and cheater J is.
He lied about R being lazy and having no job (she actually had a really good job making a lot of money) and lied about when he actually broke up with her, the break up was later on then he said and he was essentially cheating with P for a while.
Kimpractical
35. Boyfriend over the husband any day
There's a guy who was sleeping with a Coworker's Daughter. The daughter's Fiance comes home and finds them naked on the couch.
The fiance starts to fight the guy. The daughter runs to the bedroom naked and comes back to the living room with a weapon. She slides it towards the tussle between Fiance and Guy.
The naked guy gets a weapon and chaos ensues. Ultimately it ended with the fiance being gruesomely injured in the stomach.
The naked guy and coworker still work here (tons of people work here though, so they don't have to interact much). The naked guy took a couple of weeks off work. Oh, and the wedding is off.
trashlikeyourmom
36. Come on Judge
About 6 weeks ago, I left my job at a local courthouse. This place must be built on some kind of vortex because all kinds of crazy stuff happened there.
The most dramatic story is that one of the judges had to step down because he’s been indicted for a few felony counts of indecent behavior.
His case hasn’t finished so there’s no conviction yet, but it was definitely the talk of the community for several months leading up to the grand jury indicting him.
trunkup
37. Careful driver
Not me but my husband. He is a teacher and his school's principal was in a drunk-driving car accident (he was the one that was drunk) and he hit another car and the person driving passed on.
He was never fired but put on "leave". Then he took like FMLA or something. IDK. All I know is that he wasn't seen at school for months, and then he was officially "transferred" to some post that had him sitting in an office all day. The rumor is he was put in rehab.
summerdays88
38. He definitely has a type
When I worked for a local government... one officer, Tom started dating another officer, June. They fought SO much they were separated on different shifts, then finally told either they end it or they would be fired. They ended it.
Tom went on to date an addict named Crystal (not using a fake name because it is hilarious) who was arrested five times before Tom dumped her.
He tried to interfere with the last arrest (trying to convince the arresting officer to let her go), so was moved to desk duty.
Then Tom started dating Janet. She was an embezzler, scammed a few elderly people out of money, and impersonated a nurse in a hospital for some unknown reason (she got all the way to trying to log into a computer before the nurse in charge asked who the hell she was).
She was arrested, and Tom tried to intervene. Tom was told to retire or he would be fired, so he retired and married Janet at a jail wedding. The guy definitely has a type...hot mess losers.
gfjq23
39. She knows nothing
I work at a company that provides extremely skilled labor, which requires precision on an engineering level. Obviously, the salespeople who sell and promote our services need to have at least a fundamental familiarity with it.
We have a new manager. Two weeks after he started he informed us we have a new salesperson. Lisa. His girlfriend. Whose work history includes--I'm not sure, really.
I think she was a food service worker at one time. Whatever. One thing's for sure, she knows nothing about this industry. It's like if I woke up one day and decided I wanted to be an astronaut.
They live together so they come in late together and leave early together. They'll say they're going to "go visit a customer" but nobody is fooled. She's already clashed with the office manager, who almost quit.
Rumor has it they met online, five months ago. When they break up, it's going to be epic. I can't wait and honestly, I’ll be happy to get rid of her at our workplace.
imnotscarlet
40. Class Dismissed
My boyfriend was supposed to take a summer class to get the new school year started by getting a pre-req out of the way. He got emailed last week that the class was canceled, with no explanation.
Started a different class yesterday, somewhat related to the first so most people in this class are going to the canceled one.
Apparently, it was canceled because this professor was getting fired and accused of gross misconduct. It's a multiple offenses over time sort of situation and it has something to do with 'things she said to students'.
Ginger_Maple
41. False Reasons
I was dating a nurse on another unit (me PICU and him GI). He dumped me saying he wasn’t “emotionally in a good space”. I floated up to his unit a couple of months later… they were having a baby shower for him.
I guess he and a nurse from the ER were dating and having a baby. Once I found out the due date the whole unit did the math and realized he got her pregnant three months before we broke up.
He looked like an absolute jerk and I got to work the next 12 hours at the same nurse's station. He didn’t look at me the whole time lol.
Melmelnhl
42. Oh no you don’t!
Two jobs ago, a guy had a heart attack at night and then came into work the next morning like nothing happened. He only went to the hospital after a coworker threatened to call an ambulance unless he let her drive him there.
Heart attacks don't always look like they do in the movies, which sometimes makes it more difficult for people to realize they are having one.
wizardcats
43. Wrong date, sir!
I got fired at a call center in front of all the other employees for supposedly missing a shift the day before. Unfortunately, my manager couldn't read the calendar and I was in there for the right day.
She refused to budge on the fact that I was in the right day until my coworkers were like "Uh, sorry, but DawgBro is right... today is the 16th." She then told me to get to work then.
She was fired a few months later for an unrelated and unknown reason. I’ll be honest, I was happy to see her go, it gave me peace.
DawgBro
44. Formula Thief
Luckily I was on my lunch so I was sitting outside to see all of this. A pregnant woman had walked into Walmart and proceeded to try and take off with about $200 in baby formula.
She ran out barefoot because her flip-flops fell off. There she was running around the parking lot, big belly and arms full of cans of formula while the cops chased her.
The best part was it was like a cartoon, she tried hiding behind one of those really skinny trees. I was like seriously woman?!
[deleted]
45. Not over stale Fanta
I used to work at Dominos. We'd sometimes get drunks come in on a Friday or Saturday night and a couple of times they'd kick the windows.
One night, it was me, another driver, who was Indian, the manager, and his friend who worked in the store who was Filipino. Two drunk chav-looking men came in, got their food, and on the way out, grabbed a bottle of Fanta from this display (probably well out of date).
The other driver ran off after them and the three of them had a massive brawl in the street, over a £1.50 bottle of Fanta. They came back into the store, ripped a phone out, and threw it at a computer screen, then threw the Fanta bottle at the manager's friend.
It hit him dead in the center of the forehead with the bottle cap, leaving a pretty funny circular bruise. Think of it as a Fanta bruise.
Eventually, the police arrived and found them by the library, where they yelled at me, saying I'm white so I should be backing up their story. Also, the manager decided to leave the store open with customers walking in with blood splatters on the floor and a smashed window.
the0rthopaedicsurgeo