45 Insane Workplace Moments That Got Legendary Status

Nurse here…A postpartum nurse at a large hospital in Minneapolis was in charge of making sure mothers after giving birth (not normal births, high risk and c-sections) were treated with pain medications.

She was drawing the liquid med into syringes, filling other syringes with tap water and filling the med bottles back up with water

Then she would go into the bathroom and inject herself and then go see her patients.


Thank you to cameras and the Pyxis machine she was caught

TL:DR - Hospital nurse was an opioid junky stealing meds from sick patients and hurting them with tap water “pain” meds.

I worked in a call center around 2005. One of the employees and a manager built a sex toy website on company computers during work hours. Both fired.

Fast food in the 90s.

Our best drive through worker would sell weed through the drive through. There was some small order, he'd tell them the total was 21.07 instead of 1.07. I thought it was kind of brilliant, no one would accidentally be cool with paying $20 for a $.99 whopper.


Another guy brought acid to work on new Year's Eve. I heard the manager tell him to just wait until after closing (midnight). Around 9pm he calls for manager help. I heard him insisting he couldn't get the milkshakes because the machine kept melting.

Local to me a drywaller was retiring, they threw a party in a unfinished townhouse complete with stripper, blow, booze etc. young guy pulled out his phone and posted a video. They all lost their job. Retiree lost his union and pension. Died of a heart attack a year later.

I used to work at a place that was a fever dream. A few stories from there because I don’t have the time.

We started every Friday with a full company “huddle”. Around 30 people. Occasionally bossman wanted to prove how cool and hip he was and would come in a costume. One day CEO and his right hand man came down in full over the shoulder mankinis with a speaker on their shoulder and ran around humping all the dudes there. The left the women alone while dressed like that at least. Then continued on for the full 30 minutes dressed like that.

Different day same whole company meeting bossman learned one of the ladies had never shotgunned a beer and he was like oh you have to do it now! Anyone else wanna join she can’t do it alone so like 6 people shotgunned beer at 8:15 in the morning.

There were some perks but it was largely hell. One time he took the whole company to drive on a race track. That is still one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.

I work 9-5 but in a building that has plenty of 24 hour workers. Outside my office there is a small first aid room with a bit of medical supplies, a sink and small bed. Shortly after starting here I went into the room and there was a post-it note on the bed that said :

"Please don't have sex on this bed".

Former high school teacher. One of my colleagues department would send his TAs (16 and 17 years old) on errands during his class. They'd make coffee runs, get him lunch, take his car to get it washed, and do other totally inappropriate tasks off campus. He was finally fired after it was discovered he had sent a 16 year old girl to some random person's house to pick up somthing he bought on Craigslist.


That whole school was a s**t show. It was a small, conservative town where people covered for each other because they all grew up together and they all had dirt on one another. I have a million stories but this is the only one where the person faced consequences.

Back in the mid-1990s, in the very early days of the Internet, we had a colleague who would sit at his desk with 2 or 3 windows open streaming porn. On his screen. In the office. In an open-plan office building.

Again, this was in the 1990s. Another colleague would smoke cigars at his desk. In an open-plan office building.

A couple of years before that, we had one colleague who didn't show up to work on Monday. Or Tuesday. We asked our manager if he had called in sick ... apparently no, he was in jail for dealing heroin. I never saw him again...

Manager was stealing deposits and banging a cashier in the office. Where he knew there was a camera. His solution? Turn off the computer monitor showing the camera feed. Because he thought that would turn off the camera. He got arrested for the theft. The cashier kept her job. Why? Because there is nothing in the handbook saying you can't have sex in the office. Yes, that was the official reason given for her keeping her job.

I’ve seen some crazy things at work. Manager was sleeping with a couple employees, new manger comes along and they start hooking up, they get caught, he gets fired, now they are married.

Another employee found acid and decided to take it on the clock, freaks out, hides in a closet and gets fished out to an ambulance. He got fired.

Supervisor decided to smoke weed in various places. He was fired.

Supervisor started sleeping with new employee, would deny it but was caught multiple times. Was promoted to manager.

Employee would sell d***s to patrons. I think he still works there.

At a previous IT job, I helped the site safety and security guy install cameras. Once they went live, we had to monitor them for a few days to see if there were any issues. We had two employees that were dating and working on different production lines. We watched on a camera in the hall as the guy went into the bathroom and about 30 seconds later his girlfriend came from another section of the building and joined him. About 5 minutes later, she goes sprinting out of the bathroom and he comes out a second or two later fastening his belt. About 2 minutes later, water starts pouring out from under the door. We run down to investigate the water and call facilities who meet us. There was a sink broken off the wall, water going everywhere, and a condom wrapper on the floor. Couple gets called into the office and the guy confesses to everything and takes full blame so his girlfriend wouldn't get fired. We knew what they were doing.

Teachers at a school I was working at for a short time we're cheating on their respective spouses with each other. Students had called it, as they'd seen some overly friendly behaviors between them. They got caught in one of the trailer classrooms by a janitor at lunch time. Both put on admin leave for like a week, then both were fired. Afaik, they also both were served divorce papers before the end of the school year.

Twofold story here, "I can't believe they did that at work" and "I can't believe the company did that"

One of the guys at my job was a technician in charge of equipment and maintenance. He would steal mobile equipment and resell it on ebay (mobile meaning it had no assigned home, so it could be used by anyone who needed it). It took months (possibly years) to discover he was stealing stuff because it was just assumed that someone misplaced what he had been stealing. He was only caught because he never removed our company's asset labels and a manager saw one of his ebay listings for a piece of missing equipment.

After firing the technician, the company started lawsuits because they realized he stole >$100k over his time there. But people who knew this tech at that time told me the company's lawyers refused to cut any deal and wanted to drag the process out to press to continue suing until they got all their money back (they wanted to make an example of him and kept him buried in lawsuits and lawyers fees). The tech was now unemployed, in debt from lawyers, and was constantly in and out of court; he took his life 2 years after he was fired, still overwhelmed with the lawsuits and seeing no way out.

The company retells this story during every new hire orientation, leaving out the lawsuits and suicide from the story. It's something I had to warn multiple new employees to not mention the guy who stole equipment. Because during orientation, it's treated as a joke about "an employee who stole from the company so we fired him." I talked with the trainers who told me the higher ups required them to mention that story and a separate story about following safety protocols and a guy who got injured.

This was a good 10 years or so ago... After an altercation occurred in the store that I worked at (not related to the below), the police came to examine CCTV footage.

Whilst reviewing the footage for the altercation, it also revealed an affair between the assistant manager and a coworker in the storage area. They were both married with kids and ended up losing their job.

Imagine being caught in the act by the police and your coworkers on CCTV, then having to explain to your partner why you've been sacked from work.

As far as I'm aware, they both got divorced and tried to make a go of it together, but the relationship lasted all of 3 months.

Someone had been doing mini bottles of fireball and then flushing the empty bottles down the toilet. We got an email one day about how the sewage pumping station for our campus broke down and they cleared out "hundreds of mini bottles of fireball". That email ended with something to the effect of "whoever is doing this, we don't want to punish you, we want to get you help".

There was also the time someone discovered a bag full of feeder mice in the breakroom freezer.

I used to work with someone who spent most of the day running her own business from our office. Everyone knew about it but nothing was done because she'd given one if the higher ups a huge discount for the services if her other job.

It caused several issues. One time no one could find her during a major issue because she was with one of her personal clients when she claimed to have been at one of our client's offices. Another time I was printing up a report at the same time she'd printed up an invoice for her business. The invoice ended up in the middle of my report. I didn't catch it because I just checked the first and last page when I grabbed it. I only discovered it after uploading it to our server and someone called me about it when the read it. Had to deal with IT to get it removed so I could re-upload it. Our boss was livid and I'm pretty sure she was the one who finally called the corporate office. She retired before they could fire her.

Closing manager had a gambling addiction and was taking the deposit to the casino.

Walked into the back stock room to get more bags, and found one of the cooks and cashiers having sex on the happy meal boxes. I oped and walked outta there.

We had a guy storing very graphic X rated pics of him and his wife on a government computer. He’s now married to another woman, who happens to be the mom of one of the younger employees. A real class act.

Ever hear of the “Roof Ninja of Family Fare”
I heard stories, I never believed them.
They were true.
A crazy person, related to an employee, made a home inside the sign for the store on the roof. She lived there at least a year.