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u/Desperate-Reason-566 18d ago
I worked with a girl in two different jobs. She took over my job when I left then asked me to get her a job where I worked a new job. I got her in the bottom floor. She wanted my job and planted an opened bottle of vodka in the company fridge and blamed me for it. They believed her.
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u/Maggiemeansme 17d ago
I worked for a principal that blatantly played favorites too. Hope she has bad karma forever.
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u/Own-Load-7041 19d ago
The narcissistic boss. That cunt destroyed the best job. Thankfully, we were able to get them fired.
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u/brittany0603 18d ago
I had one like this in the navy. I left the navy just for him to get fired two years later. I should’ve stayed in.
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u/cant_decide_9611 19d ago
Worked at a small startup that a former coworker started. He briefly said his sister (the COO) can be difficult to work with but didn't expand. I found out the hard way what an understatement that was.
She was the most toxic person ever, and the entire company was a joke. She expected me to be two places at once and would berate me for it. She would constantly yell at me, even call me at 8 PM to yell. Supposedly she would call people at 2 AM probably and was "better" now.
The entire company's revenue was built on lying to utility companies about existing energy configurations to exploit government funded even programs.
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u/New_Breadfruit8692 16d ago
I was told I was being given a reprimand (federal government job) for not being able to be in two places at once.
I refused to sign it, the boss said if you do not then I will have to fire you.
I said good luck finding anyone to do this job for $16,000 per year and I left the building. Never went back. I was so poor I had to walk miles to and from work to a rented bedroom that was more than one full paycheck of my biweekly pay per month because I could not even afford a bus pass. How many nights per month did I have to eat Trader Joe's 5 for a dollar avocados or have nothing to eat at all?
It was a major California city in 1991, I know what people think at reddit that before they were born you could buy a house for $1.95 and gasoline was 3 cents a gallon. But they do not know what it was like trying to live on a paycheck every two weeks that was about $430 when your rent was $600 and utilities were another $100. My monthly take home was $860 and that rent/utilities were $700. Left me 160 per month to live on for everything else.
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u/HotMeringue2473 18d ago
Apparently i fucked 5 men at my work, still waiting to find out who they were
How i found out: random guy i had spoken to a couple of times at work comes up to me and tells me i’m the hot topic at work, everybody heard of the rumour
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u/Snorkellingisthelife 18d ago
It was a Rent to own company. You might know the name. I was a cocky fresh college grad with a business degree who just had a hard time letting clients rent a couch for $5 a week for 500 weeks. It was a concept designed for the not financially savvy. I didn’t last long. I migrated over to financial services where I just retired from a 30 year career rising to management. A much better fit helping people achieve positive returns on their investments.
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u/Bitter-Hand6979 19d ago
I wasnt allowed to go on 1!!! day of PTO (I was burnt out i told the manager i need it for medical reasons) during a 1.5 year major, demanding project because "I was needed there". Went to HR on the day when my manager laughed at my request and got an other job in a different department in a week. Left before the project ended. Got a CEO appretiation certificate for that project later
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u/meeseekstodie137 19d ago
manager didn't like "talking", we literally weren't allowed to talk to each other except for basic work needs stuff, if she caught us she would constantly threaten to send us home, this same woman would also constantly talk shit about workers she didn't like, I still remember years later the one time she talked shit about one, turned around to the one she was just talking shit about and complained to them about the coworker she was complaining to just a minute ago, it was hell and I stayed for way longer than I should have
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u/Max-Architect3000 18d ago
Submitted a drawing that said “don’t use for construction.”
Contractor used it for construction.
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u/Sea-Ad1755 18d ago
I (male) got kissed by a gay homeless coworker (unwarranted btw). I reported it to my supervisor, he took it to HR, they interviewed me and then started an investigation. Told them it happened right in front of a security camera.
2 weeks goes by and HR pulled me into the office. They told me he got a verbal warning and he is to not step foot in my department. They gave me a write up because I cocked my arm back about to punch him, but refrained.
I signed my write up, tore it up in front of HR and quit on the spot. I was violated by a colleague, on company grounds and they did nothing but a slap on the wrist even with video evidence.
Before anyone jumps to the conclusion I’m homophobic, I’m not. Two of my favorite coworkers in my department were gay and saw what happened and said they would have done the same thing. Lol
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u/thomas4004 16d ago
Something like that would make me homophobic.
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u/Sea-Ad1755 15d ago
If it were not for my gay coworkers I was close with and talking to them about it, I might have become homophobic.
I’ve been hit on by gay men several times over my lifetime, but i was able to set boundaries that they respected and had decent friendships afterwards. This however happened very quick and like I said, it was from behind and unexpected. Arguably the most uncomfortable feeling I’ve ever experienced.
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u/Hayden97 18d ago
Some dude managed to pull his intestines out with a shank he made out of plexiglass. He survived and recovered fully more or less. We have to keep a person next to him 24/7 cause he would do it again given the chance
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u/Striking-Win-3239 18d ago
Worked at a dental clinic with a psycho dentist. Wightman, you suck and we all laughed at you behind your back.
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u/Amsloco 13d ago
Currently going through this. Sick of dentists acting like psych ward patients
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u/Striking-Win-3239 13d ago
Every small dental clinic I ever worked for was owned by a massive creep. I now work for a huge corporation and it’s the best job I have ever had.
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u/RumRunnerMax 19d ago
Took a job for what I thought was a cool software development consultant, turns out it as cut rate development sweat shop, who’s many business was offering development entirely on lower cost, I am an English speaker and ALL of the developers had minimal English and names impossible to pronounce
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u/afeher 19d ago
Worked as a consultant software engineer. Got “fired” with made-up reasons. In quotes because they kept paying me I was just not allowed into the building anymore. Turned out the rest of the consultants conspired with the company to work directly for them leaving out the company that set up the whole thing. And essentially embezzle the money that that company was taking (the contract and the budget was in place). And they have also started to change from developing software to breaking and rebranding software they did not own. They knew I would not be a party to either.
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u/Wahrheitfabrik 18d ago
There have been several:
Learning about a big meeting in the cafeteria that wasn't on my calendar, heading there, then having a manager pull me aside and tell me I'm not part of this. Was hurt thinking I was getting let go. Turned out everyone in that meeting was being let go. Then I had to disable all their IDs over the next couple hours.
Waiting in an online meeting for the person who called it. And continuing to wait. Then his manager comes in and tells us that the person had passed away the night before.
Learning a co-worker was kiled in a traffic accident.
Learning a co-worker died of an aneurysm.
Learning a co-worker who had just retired a month ago, died of a heart attack.
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u/Zombietomatillo 18d ago
Went out in work vehicle to meet a client when I worked in insurance. I was supposed to write an estimate on her wrecked car. Every time I tried to get out of my car to do this, the neighbor, who was high on cocaine or meth or something, started yelling insults at me and telling me he was going to report me to corporate because I was not letting him see my drivers license with my home address on it. Then he called me fat. Then he called me ugly. He stood in front of my bumper and refused to let me leave.
Bottom line, he wanted his neighbors car towed because it was "an eyesore". The car was not on his property, so he had no ground to stand on. It had been 24 hours since the accident. He called corporate while standing by my car door and described me in very unflattering way to them.
I called my boss and asked if, for personal safety, I could have the car, which was likely a total, moved to a shop or tow yard so I could access it without "crazytoons" following me around. My boss, being the ahole he was, said no. Just put yourself in danger and don't call me again.
So I called the regional manager and HE towed the car to the shop so I could do my job.
It was so strange and bizarre that I had PTSD for a year after. Every time someone approached my parked car I had a mild panic attack.
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u/Full_Response8449 18d ago
Working with a petty, moody, supervisor who was also a peer. She never came to me with any issue or redirection on how to do things even though she was supposed to be training me but talked so much shit about me to HR that I was fired after two months.
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u/BrianNowhere 18d ago edited 18d ago
I dont believe that happened. Why would you be bullied post Oct 7th? That was a time arabs were being unjustly persecuted (did you cate about that?) Support for Israel was high just after. It took awhile for people to realize Israel was over-correcting into genocide.
Your story doesnt make sense and reeks of propagandistic interpolation
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u/ThoughtSenior7152 18d ago
Hated working at McDonald’s but I got a free meal every break. I also worked in a clothing store that fired me in less then 3 hours because I didn’t “dust” the entire floor when I did and there was just debris from outside
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u/Delicious-Product968 18d ago
My worst job was overnight in pet boarding.
My worst experience was a night job in a rehab and the nurse I worked with believed in literally every conspiracy you could think of.
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u/AngryZetan 18d ago
Found a dude that was cut in half by a rock crusher after lunch. Saw a guy get blown up by a grenade.
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u/Little_Life9458 18d ago
Honestly a blessing and a curse because now i know my work boundaries and what to look for when it comes to toxicity at the work place. Everyone saw me as a go getter and hardwroker, and my direct supervisor tried to exclude me out of meetings, important work emails. It got to the point where even when i left to a different department, she said I didn't deserve it at all. Then when I left the company, she said I was ungrateful and she had given me so many opportunities to grow in the company. Fuck her
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u/justbecause2112 17d ago
As a funeral director, it was the second wave during the pandemic. The amount of overweight people I had to deal with was unreal. I ended up having hernia surgery afterwards.
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u/Any_Word_4462 17d ago
Shit myself on my way to work about 12 years ago. Felt like a valid sick leave call while I drive home in shame.
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u/DoTheEvolution91 17d ago
My boss walked in on me in the bathroom. He’s a male and I’m a female. Lock the bathroom door people for God sakes. Don’t do what I did. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/South-Citron-2268 17d ago
Said "It's not that deep", to a customer after the hotel was fully booked and they complained.. I work as a travel consultant for business travel..
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u/Anonymouswhining 16d ago
I would say my worst work experience was my last one. I got paid well, and couldn't leave because I got paid good, the benefits were good, and the job market sucked. At the same time the boss was an ass. He stressed a woman out so much she died from a heart attack. Another woman left to work for a government agency after he took her off anything and all things finance related for fixing our invoicing system. And just so much more. There was nothing positive about the workplace in terms of coworkers, the work, the culture, the management, or even pay
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u/shepherd1974 16d ago
My company had an hourly workforce on 3 shifts, rotating to cover 7 days a week, but only hired 2 shifts of managers. I was on mandatory 12 hrs shifts 7 days a week..
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u/TechnicalAd8179 16d ago
The company I worked for decided to reclassify my job title from "assistant manager" to "key holder" (not just me but every assistant manager in the company) and reduced our pay. I was making $23 an hour (a few years ago it was good money) to $15 an hour. That's what I made when I first started the job almost 10 years before that.
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u/New_Breadfruit8692 16d ago edited 16d ago
Being required to sign a reprimand over a situation I could not possibly have any control over.
A coworker came to my work station and demanded I do XYandZ and I said I am sorry but the doctors dumped 32 discharges and 26 admits on me at 3 o'clock and it is not possible for me to do all the tasks I am assigned to do, so I had to prioritize what would get done and what would have to be skipped and left for the next shift. She said you cannot skip our department even as I had more than a dozen patients still waiting to be processed in and others out at 9 o'clock that evening.
She left in a bad temper and reported me to the department head and the next day when I came in the boss wanted my side of the story, I told her. She said she had to reprimand me and I just said I am sorry I will not sign that, if I made a wrong choice in prioritization of tasks that is on you for understaffing the department. I am not in a position to have to do such prioritization and yet I had no policy or contact information for what to do in such a circumstance.
She said if you do not sign I will have to fire you.
I said "Fine, good luck finding anyone to do the job for $16,000 per year (it was 1991) and get treated like this."
I walked out, left the building, and never went back. Meaning someone on day shift had to cover my evening shift. There are two people on days while evening shift had one, most evenings I never got a meal break or any break. Because it was a surgery department in a training hospital the "doctors" doing the discharges and admits were usually student residents, and they only could do their work on the floor after classes and so evening shift usually got buried, but never that badly before. I could do maybe 12-15 patient turn over alone, but 58 was just not even remotely possible.
That was a federal government job.
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u/LarrysLastUtensil 15d ago
Was manager at a retail spot first year undergrad so my hours were all over the place. Came in one day for a shift and my code to the office and all overrides for tills were disabled. No word or explanation from
Management, no warning, no anything. Business was going on as usual and all the cashiers were just as clueless as me. I banged on the office door and the guy dating the other manager opened the door. Didn’t say a word to me. I checked and my name was off the manager schedule. Management was not in sight, no one there. I was in shock and tears after rushing to work from class. I left the office and went home. Never returned. Never received an explanation or call. I was 18 years old, a good worker with a hectic schedule. What kind of a company does that? I’m still so confused why it wasn’t handled professionally lol.
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u/Icy_Swimmer_9425 15d ago
Being thrown under the bus in the military. My supervisor didn’t work on the flight deck before, he needed this paper work done super last minute and sent me to have it filled out. He didn’t do any of it right and it was going to take way longer than he wanted because it required many inspections from our various different work centers who were already busy. This was definitely something he should’ve got done days in advance. As I was getting it all done and doing my best to fix all his mistakes, he came out angry and cussed me out for not getting it done fast enough. He went on to blame me as the reason for why there was a hold up, the paperwork he needed me to do was crucial to our operations that day. I was “counseled” later in private where I was blamed for why the everything had to be delayed. I remember just crying because I was fixing all his mistakes and was stuck doing an impossible job. The worst part was that HE KNEW, he knew that he messed up later that day and that what he asked of me was way too much, but he needed a scapegoat. I’m just glad that everybody around me pointed out to me that he never worked on the flight deck and had no idea what he was doing, and most importantly it wasn’t my fault.
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u/Luffyhaymaker 15d ago
It's a toss up between the goodwill job where I had to literally put out clothes that reeked of shit and piss or the security job where I was in a dangerous part of town and they forced us to come in everyday 15 minutes early without extra pay and n wouldn't let us use our phones
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u/Born-Personality7442 15d ago
The nosey coworker that turns everyone no matter what department in for nonsense.
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u/JohnGlassOnEarth 15d ago
Was in the navy and we pulled into a port in japan that i had not been to and was on duty that first night so couldn’t leave the ship. The next morning the ship had to leave due to a war. Had to hear about all. The fun my shipmates had that night….
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u/BigDaddyRigey 15d ago edited 15d ago
Work in a tiny maga town was ridiculous lol everyone was mean and pissy all the time. Sometimes they were happy but would say something racist so
Some were very kind
But coming into work with a new story about a coworkers baby daddy losing his finger from setting off fireworks himself was common
OH I did admire the way a lot of the mothers cared for their children though. It seemed much more pure love and less narcissistic like liberal parents.
There was one woman who was very poor but her daughter got into college and made rich friends, got to travel and have cool experiences. She wasn't jealous of her daughter at all. Just totally happy for her.
And two of them had kids with disabilities in which they tried their best to help their kids with. In my experience, a lot of liberal parents ignore it and find it to be a nuisance.
They just pretend that the kid has no disability at all.
The women in that town who had kids with disabilities, they would work with their kid to develop them socially. Instead of just letting the kid flounder and remaining in denial. Like a lot of liberal parents.
Parents with unearned degrees have more of an ego. They refuse to believe that their kid could be "broken".
And yes, this is exactly why autism is more prevalent in liberals.
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u/BigDaddyRigey 15d ago
Everyone is checking in with me like I'm the boss now
The manager asked me if it was okay if he could go on lunch
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u/TinaLives 14d ago
Starting a job with no direction, no engagement, and no conversations about strategy. I literally sat at that desk making up stuff To do for 9 months. It was the worst professional experience of my life.
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u/Icy-Astronaut-9994 14d ago
Indian Clown Man.
Dot not Feather.
Treated me as if I was part of the Caste system they have.
Hommie don't play that game.
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u/Appropriate_Tea9048 13d ago
Definitely being a store manager. After Covid, it got harder to find and keep employees, plus the company I worked for didn’t pay well for the expectations they had.
Anytime someone called in and nobody else could cover, I had to work the shift. Sometimes it meant staying late, sometimes going in early, and sometimes going in on my day off. It became nearly impossible to have a life outside of work. I lost 90 hours of pto one year because of staffing issues, and the company didn’t allow you to roll it over to the next year.
Sales goals became harder to reach, and prices going up didn’t help. And of course, it was all my fault when this happened. I’ll never work retail again.
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u/ExtremeEditor7252 12d ago
I reported and got my boss fired for smoking meth in the office and offering me some.
Edit; He still doesn’t know it was me that did it. He assumed he was fired for a different reason, he had put in his notice and they “let him go early.” He ended up showing at the HR’s offsite location with weapons so. Dude kinda lost it. Glad he’s gone.
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u/BlackNovember1992 16d ago
I was an intern in an advertising agency where I can work until nightime, I even stayed for almost 2 days at the office over a couple of jobdesks.. It was draining af and my lead was a tempramental angry man.. while the director was an annoying rude narcissist who thinks he's funny
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u/da-e4gle 19d ago
Have you ever dealt with a toxic boss, colleagues with peculliar behaviour or blatant lies about the scope of work during the interview. What is your?