Dan Wilbur
16. Do they go by whoever showed up first?
“The family of the guy who passed away came to speak to us (it was in a factory environment). To get pension docs etc. We sent them away with a to do list.
1 hour later reception pinged us saying Mr Xs family was here. Strange. The documents take a few days to get.
Nope. New family.
Yup. The guy had 2 different families.
Who were about to have a fun surprise.” –meg_w1111
17. My professional email account.
“I was a recruiter, and you would be shocked to see what some people actually have as their personal email. Most people have come around to using just their name, but then every once in a while you’ll have to verify that “brownglitter69″ is in fact how they would like to be contacted.” –Blueiguana1976
18. Maybe the kink is that he wanted to get caught.
“An IT guy who worked the overnight shift (because he was doing support for our Asia/Europe regions) got written up for improper use of company systems. He had dozens of not hundreds of Google image searches related to foot fetish stuff. Like insert celebrity here feet along with other random stuff like “cute toes”, etc
Like dude…YOU’RE IN IT. You KNOW this stuff is tracked and that your boss could easily monitor it.” –Vandelay222
19. The baby with the bathwater.
“One of my relatives worked in tech support for a really high-profile company in Silicon Valley during the height of the dot com boom. Some guy who desperately wanted to work there was emailing his resume to HR one thousand times every day.
Several times a day, the number of emails would get too overwhelming. So the people in HR would just select all the emails in the inbox and delete all of them, whether the emails were from the applicant or not. My relative had to show them how to filter emails from the applicant.” –Garimasaurus
20. I don’t need this job.
“Guy came in to the interview in sweatpants and a hoodie, and said he didn’t need the job because of how much money he was making illegally, but he wanted to have a job so the IRS didn’t get suspicious.
Weirdest part is I don’t live in America, I very much doubt the IRS cares about Canadian tax returns.” –Canuckleball
21. Shoot your shot.
“Someone murdered their husband then called the next day from jail and asked our department for bereavement pay.” –WearyArachnid9
22. Not at work!
“Not HR but IT. We had a guy start and immediately start using his work computer to watch porn. Now this immediately caused some alarms to go off in IT. So because it was my job to keep an eye on stuff like this I decided to do this guy a solid because it was his first day and physically go to his office and tell him he couldn’t do that at work.
Guy gets all kinds of pissed off at me and storms off to HR to lodge a complaint against me for trying to tell him how to do his job.
Dude gets fired because he stormed into HR and told them how the IT guy was trying to tell him that he couldn’t watch porn in the privacy of his office.” –luckyducs1100
23. Look busy.
“The new receptionist was coming in every morning and opening up programs/documents to make it look like they were busy, and they’d sit with one hand on their mouse and one hand on their keyboard and stare blankly at their screen for 8 hours a day and not do anything. They’d also consistently pick up the phone and hang it up without saying anything so that it would stop ringing.
I sat in on their termination, and the employee started screaming at the manager about how they were doing an amazing job, and they had to give them another chance… I was 100% confident that they were just trying to get some easy money and wouldn’t be surprised that they were finally getting fired, the whole thing was just bizarre.” –McNugget_Princess
24. This is a sad one.
“Not exactly weird but… I work in HR and we have two people with the exact same name but in different departments. This still causes confusion sometimes but the most awkward was last year at the Christmas party. We have this anual “employee of the year” award and the name was announced before mentioning the department or other info, although I warned the MC not to do that, as we had 2 people with the same name. Let’s just say the wrong one got the most excited until he realized it wasn’t him.” –Naamah89
25. You love to see it.
“Female GM banging 3 co-workers at the same time. Fight broke out once everyone found out about it.” –spoonythirtywon
26. In my opinion, they should have done it.
“I work HR for a call center. Entire company has around 500 employees, maybe 250 of them are in the call center. Entry level work, tiny bit more than minimum wage. A girl started her first week doing really well and then week two got really weird. She walked into the CEO’s office (on another floor in the building) WHILE HE WAS MEETING WITH SOMEONE, to demand that he buy her a dog because she thought having a companion would improve her work performance. That was the entirety of her rationale.” –smokefrog2
27. Same name blame game.
“There was a big HR back-office team doing a lot of processing and data entry including employee’s bank info for their salary. It just so happened that on the same day two employees with the same name started, and a huge clusterfuck ensued.
First the banking information was entered for the wrong person, one of them realised and had it corrected, but the other wasn’t fixed so both salaries went to one person
The unpaid guy started refusing to come to work, but payroll said that the payment cleared and the account was in his name, so he was terminated for refusing to come to work.
He kept calling and the HR support team kept misidentifying him as the other guy who was still working for us, so when they raised a ticket to get his bank information changed they changed the info of the wrong guy, so now the guy who doesn’t work for us is getting paid the salary of a guy who does.
When this was finally worked out the first guy was given his job back, but on his first day back security misidentified him and issued him a badge of the other employee, so now he was clocking hours for the other guy and not getting paid again because he never clocked in for himself.
It took about 3 months for all this to be worked out. Moral of the story is use a fucking email address to identify people.” –shepanator
28. Stealing would have been better.
“Years ago I worked HR for a retail store. A manager would always clock out on time however the alarm wouldn’t be set until about 30-45 min after he clocked out. Since we had a lot of trouble with internal theft we assumed he was stealing. Loss prevention approved the installation of cameras across all stores but we were told not to talk about it to see if we could catch any internal theft. The way the ceiling was set up,the cameras weren’t too obvious but if you knew what to look for it was quite noticeable.
Anyway turned out this dude was banging a co worker who was 16 (he was 25 expecting his first child with his wife). I didn’t see the footage but our regional manager of loss prevention did and had to turn it over the the police. The real kicker is the girls dad was a captain on said police force.” –TenDollarTicket
29. The glory hole.
“Two people had cut a hole in the wall between their offices. They pushed their filing cabinets to hide the hole on both sides. Cleaning staff was asked to deep clean the offices one day and they found the hole.
Both parties involved were married, not to each other. They were having sex through the wall.” –Diamonddeamons
30. Let’s end with a bang.
“Cemetery keeper admits he buries animals that die in the cemetery in occupied graves. Police wont investigate as unlikely to be able to convict. Employer won’t tackle as he is old and litigious. So someone’s nanna is currently bunk bedding with a muntjac and apparently that’s OK.” –lonelytoes235
h/t Reddit: r/AskReddit
