Someone Asks "Blanket NDAs Are Now Illegal, What Can You Finally Tell Us About Your Former Employer?" And 30 People Deliver

They misused pandemic assistance funds.

They were reusing butter from customers plates and giving it to the next person.

Edit: I did report them and got fired. Because of wait times during COVID, the statute of limitations passed and they got away with it.

Like any narcissist, at least one of his kids hate him. He moved to exploit workers while you had to pull teeth to get a raise. He exploited Covid loans and ended up with a brand new Tesla.

He always told me not to have an us Vs them mentality, while constantly reminding me that I’m upper management and not to be friendly with my staff. I came from the bottom up in that company and my staff meant the world to me. I was firm when needed, but they all knew I had their backs.

After 10 years, I got fired 2 weeks after I came home from vacation bc a suck up kissed his a*s. He had told me upon coming back that I’d never have the GM position e when the current retired. Once all that happened, I stopped doing extra. Kiss a*s guy worked 75 hours the week after I got fired and then quit.

They spent 6 months having to redo EVERYTHING bc I was the one who developed our digital systems. Almost all of my old staff quit within that time.

The company I work for now I absolutely LOVE. They really appreciate me and my experience. Never going to manage a place like that again bc I don’t want that pressure. 5 years was long enough. (We also have a lot of their clients so it’s funny that it happened.)

I worked for a school district that changed grades to boost graduation rates.

A publication I worked for completely embezzled from the parent company. The editor in chief hired their best friend as creative director. Creative director contracts their husband as a “men’s fashion editor” when the publication had no men’s fashion section and was not a fashion-related pub. He was paid thousands monthly on retainer and almost never came into the office, and if he did he never did any work. On top of that he was paid usage fees for travel images he took and were printed. That family took a one week trip for a story, brought their child, and submitted a $40,000.00 expense report after for it. Oh, then there were the future invoices for her husband’s usage fees for his photos, while they were being paid to be there because it was for a story.

Other editors in chief from other publications were given a $25,000.00 clothing budget every year and a daily black car driver to take them to the office. When I worked for another title in the building that EIC submitted a very high expense report which included his groceries. The company would even provide interest free down payments to EICs for homes but they stopped doing that.

Meanwhile they ran multiple rounds of layoffs a year, consolidated staffs so they worked across multiple titles, and paid peanuts to regular employees. I was laid off from that company twice within 2 years and they didn’t vest my 401K match because both times I missed the cutoff by months.

The old timers at the pharmaceutical plant used to go swimming in the tanks they used to make medicine in the summer when it was hot out.

Yep, there was old man balls in some of those pills.

This was a name brand pharma company too. One you’d expect to have good quality.

It doesn’t happen anymore obviously.

One of my old bosses reprimanded an employee after the employee called HR to file a complaint about him. This is because the HR employee happened to be a friend of the boss in question, and the HR employee blabbed about it to the boss. The boss did not get fired but he did get reassigned not long after. Not sure what happened to the HR employee.

The filtered water dispenser in the cafeteria produced floaty chunks of goodness for too long a time. I had to drink bottled water.

I worked for the political consultant best known in DC circles for having gotten a dead fish in the mail from Rahm Emanuel.

The consultant was a super weird boss. Full of shady business practices, including expensing all of his personal s**t like family vacations to the business.

But this is the story that tends to blow minds:

My former employer had me print out his emails so he could handwrite his responses, which I would type up and send back.

ETA: no, I wasn't his assistant lol. He was too cheap to hire one. So he'd pull people off time sensitive client projects to do this c**p, which turned everything into chaos. One of the many reasons turnover was high and the business failed.

He's actually a really nice guy. Former marine, took about 6 months off when he adopted a young boy to get him acclimated into the family