We all know that we’re expected to act professionally in the workplace. But depending on what company you’re employed by and how well you know your colleagues, what’s considered appropriate behavior may not be black and white. Sure, you probably shouldn’t show up to the office wearing a robe. But you might be able to get away with using swear words or getting drunk at the holiday party if your boss doesn’t mind.
Some employees, however, get carried away and end up throwing workplace etiquette out the window completely. Redditors have recently been discussing the wildest things they’ve ever witnessed while on the clock, so we’ve gathered their juiciest stories below. Enjoy reading through, and be sure to upvote the tales that you can’t imagine ever taking place in your office!
#41
Had an old supervisor that would bang this girl that worked under him. She had a BF at the time and the BF had no idea. The supervisor would allow this girl “extra breaks” and they would both goto his car, bang for 10 minutes. Then both come back in. EVERYONE except her BF knew about it too.
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17points
#42
I was a management consultant working for a very large insurance company (3-letter name, was big in the news in the 2008 financial crisis). We were there late one night when my colleague goes to grab something off the shared printer. Only to find a bunch of full-color prints of very hardcore man-on-man gay sex. Interesting choice of things to print at work.
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16points
#43
Was hired as kitchen manager at a new place in town, they had been open 2 weeks just winging it with a fella who convinced them he knew what he was doing.
Day one i throw away TONS of open cans of moldy food, no coverings, no proper storage at all. Ok.
Then I look at the grill, like really look at it. Underneath is a very deep pool of sludge. Deep.
I say to this man, we will call him Batman, i says to him “Batman, what are you doing with the grease at night after youve cleaned the grill?”
This grown man says “it goes to the grease pit outside”
I ask, “Batman, how is it getting to the grease pit outside?”
He says, “it just goes there”
And that day that man cleaned a 90 year old cast iron griddle and carried a LOT of grease to the pit. It leaked goo for about 2 weeks.
The thing was huge and had 2 weeks worth of grease in it.
Day one i throw away TONS of open cans of moldy food, no coverings, no proper storage at all. Ok.
Then I look at the grill, like really look at it. Underneath is a very deep pool of sludge. Deep.
I say to this man, we will call him Batman, i says to him “Batman, what are you doing with the grease at night after youve cleaned the grill?”
This grown man says “it goes to the grease pit outside”
I ask, “Batman, how is it getting to the grease pit outside?”
He says, “it just goes there”
And that day that man cleaned a 90 year old cast iron griddle and carried a LOT of grease to the pit. It leaked goo for about 2 weeks.
The thing was huge and had 2 weeks worth of grease in it.
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15points
#44
At a previous workplace, watching one saleswoman trying to get her friend out of the male toilet cubicle, while her friend was "getting friendly" with an external sales rep. This was at a works social event.
At a place I volunteered for, they had to use a live capture mouse trap, for "reasons"...the main problem was that they are vermin and cannot be released in to the wild, especially a problem when most of the people in the office had "Ecologist" in their title. It was humanely euthanised, much to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by some of the more sensitive workers there.
At a place I volunteered for, they had to use a live capture mouse trap, for "reasons"...the main problem was that they are vermin and cannot be released in to the wild, especially a problem when most of the people in the office had "Ecologist" in their title. It was humanely euthanised, much to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by some of the more sensitive workers there.
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13points
#45
Employees had an air mattress set up out on the robotics field, they put down electronic barriers to keep pods around the air mattress. Set up a whole bedroom out there. Bed, lamp, condoms, sex toys. They would hook up on the robotics field often.
No cameras that far out into the field, they got caught because product pods were showing stuck so lead robotics manager went out to find out what was going on.
Yes they got termed.
No cameras that far out into the field, they got caught because product pods were showing stuck so lead robotics manager went out to find out what was going on.
Yes they got termed.
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11points
