Leigh
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“I’m training a new girl. We’re sitting at a computer together. The whole time I’m training her, she’s scanning the perimeter around her. She’s asking about this guy. Is he single? What about that guy? She’s paying very little to no attention to what I’m telling her about, you know, the JOB. She’s not even looking at what I’m doing as I’m demonstrating the work to her. She’s rubbernecking every male who walks past. At first, I was nice.
Her eyes were glazed over; she wasn’t absorbing anything, I could tell. Nice wasn’t working. After a time, I said to her very sharply, “Are you here to work, or are you here looking for a boyfriend? Because if you’re not here to work, I’m going to need to find someone else for this job (I had hiring authority).”
That snapped her into reality for about 15 minutes. I finally said it’s break time. She smiled and said, “I’m going to go up to the 4th floor and see if there’s any fresh meat up there.” After break time, I sent her into the fax room to collect some faxes I needed. The mail-guy was in there changing rolls of fax paper. He came out of the mail-room and said I think there’s something wrong with your new girl. He was very nervous. I said what happened. Apparently she was in the fax room which tended to get hot because of all the machines in there. She had perched her ass up on the edge of the table, hiked her dress up to where her underwear was showing, arched her back, unbuttoned the front of her dress, and fanned herself with the sheaf of fax pages and said, “Oh, it’s just so…HOT…in here.” Yeah. Like that. Like the opening of a porno. I totally believed him. I believed she did that. 100%, she totally did that.”—speecyspicymeatball
12.
“I worked at a retail store and found one of my coworkers was using the company iPad (that we used to play music and order lunches) to go on Craigslist and search for hookups. She didn’t even bother to delete the search history.”—rbrady
13.
“I worked at a pet store, and was the lead cashier so I had to train this girl who didn’t think she had to abide by the uniform because it’s just(store name) and doesn’t count as a real job. That was a warning that despite her thinking she did need to follow the uniform rules. Then when ringing up customers she actually told customers they couldn’t buy certain items because we were running low and she planned on getting a pet soon and wanted these items.
I apologized and rung them up. Second warning with me explaining how that’s not how it works and she could shop when she’s off the clock. Finally, my manager fired her when she tried to steal one of the cats that were up for adoption after being told she needed to wait for approval after they do a home visit and make sure she can care for the cat. Her excuse for trying to steal the cat? Her landlord doesn’t allow pets so she wouldn’t be approved and she’d be a much better pet parent than anyone who else who wanted the cat and much better than any of the customers we got. The girl didn’t even last a week.”—blindgirlandherguide
14.
“One of my ER nurses was chasing another down the hall with a scalpel in her hand screaming at the top of her lungs “I’m going to cut you bitch!”—EzraSteel
15.
“When I worked in hotels, I was promoted to front desk manager. My first task was to hire someone. I ended up getting this very charismatic guy that was a little over the top but overall seemed like a solid employee. After I end up hiring him on his first day he asked me if it’s okay if he carries his gun on him. I think that’s strange, but it is his right and the owners honestly didn’t care so long as he had his license. He was never able to produce a license, so he was never able to bring this handgun on the property. About a week into his employment we find out that he’s been calling guests—specifically the really attractive females—and asking them if they need any “overnight service.”
We were very understaffed and my boss decided that instead of firing him we were going to take him off the desk and put him on basic groundsman duties. Part of these duties included driving the shuttle to the airport and back and also filling up the shuttle when it got low on fuel, which means that he had access to the gas card. Our accountant confronts me one day about some very strange charges to the gas card apparently we had been filling up the shuttle near daily at anywhere between 20 to $45. We looked into it and got the surveillance footage from the gas station and it turns out was this kid filling up his friend’s cars and even his own car. When confronted he tells my boss that I said it was okay. Obviously, that wasn’t true and they didn’t believe him. He ended up also being my first termination.”—Jewpracabra
16.
“CEO ordered me to fire one of my interns because he was trying to hit on one of the other interns the CEO had the hots for.”—DonkeyTron42
17.
“Fired a guy for looking to pay someone to cast black magic on the owner and the owner’s family to bewitch them into giving him a raise and, ironically, never firing him. The only reason I found out was because he asked someone else in the office for help in finding a witch doctor to cast the spells and word got around. No one wanted to be in the same room as him after that. When I confronted him he said the devil made him do it so it wasn’t his fault. I live in the Middle East. I definitely did not wake up expecting to fire someone for black magic that day. Side note: practicing black magic is literally a death sentence here.”—RIVANKO
18.
“A guy shaved/trimmed off his pubes and left them scattered across a shared desk in a shared office. When confronted, he pulled a George Costanza: “Oh, is that frowned upon?”—GenXed
19.
“I was a bartender/bar manager. This guy came in one night and said he was an aspiring DJ and asked if we would consider hiring him to come in just on Sunday nights to DJ for us. He said we wouldn’t have to pay him at first, he would just take tips and we could renegotiate after he helped to build up our Sunday night crowd. He lasted less than 3 months. He drove away so much business and I got SO many complaints. He played the same songs every week and when people made requests (for commonly known songs), he had no idea who they (the musicians) were. I had to fire someone who was working for free. He was a nice guy, which is the only reason he lasted as long as he did.”—monkeymeex
20.
“My coworker at a coffee shop. Told a customer she didn’t feel like making X drink and she should go elsewhere. Wore cookie monster PJ pants while we had a very strict “black or khaki pants, no jeans, no leggings” policy at the time. Couldn’t figure out the concept of milk? This still baffles me to this day. I was trying to show her how to steam milk properly. She was off in La La Land and when she snapped back into the conversation she asked, “What are we doing again?”—carbusinesslady234
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