30 People Expose Coworkers Who Did Something Insanely Crazy But Still Didn’t Get Fired

He hit the OSHA inspector with a forklift.

Had a guy at work do these things during his time at a place I worked and he never got fired:

Accidentally set fire to the trees out back whilst taking a pee, he was bored and lighting ants on fire. Fire truck had to come put it out - scorched earth!

Ignored instructions from a spotter and dropped a 250k machine whilst the spotter was underneath (luckily, the legs on the machine prevented any injury). Edit: I was wrong, she wasn’t underneath just very close and looking underneath.

Threw a plastic 55g drum at the owner in a fit of drunken rage.

Got pulled over 25 minutes away from work 25 minutes after his shift and got a dui - blew a 0.21 and was in the local paper.

Got drunk on moonshine from the back fridge, went into the bar bathrooms (during business hours) and pulled his infected tooth out with a pair of channel-locks, stole the bartenders tips and drove home a bloody drunken mess. Bathroom was an absolute disaster.

Routinely stole cash, beer, and merch.

Threw a glass at me once, but that wasn’t really all that bad.

Pulled the wrong valve off of the bottom of a tank and lost ~800 gallons of beer before I could get it back on for him

Some of the things from the top of my head, it was a while back now but he eventually quit.

When I worked retail, I once challenged a customer to step outside and fight. The customer - I'll never forget this - said, "Dude, you're at work," and walked out, shaking his head. Sometimes the customer is right!

It was me, but I faked a coworkers death by putting a makeshift memorial up in his assigned parking spot on April 1st. It had his picture, flowers, a handful of candles, the whole deal. The head of HR was not amused. Everyone else loved it, though.

To make matters worse, this was during peak covid. I had just returned from a small vacation and had no idea my friend i did this to had been out for 3 days due to suspected covid.

I used to be a chemist in the lab, and I swear to God, every lab had one psycho. Our resident psycho had it out for one of the girls for some reason, and had to be physically restrained by another guy from attacking her. He didn’t like something she was talking about (he was an angry chauvinist). Another time he threatened to “bash her head into the glass window “. Management and HR did absolutely nothing, in fact they blamed her. She ended up taking him to court and filing a restraining order. He was forced onto a different shift and had to leave the property before she came in. Way to protect your own employees, a******s. Oh, and he accused everyone of being secretly gay together. Good times.

"What are you gonna do? Fire me? I'm your only line cook that'll take 3 waiters, a bus boy, and the dish washer with me if I leave!" I was the dish washer.

Work drunk.

This was in car sales. Dude showed up drunk or heavy hangover constantly. But he sold a lot of cars, somehow, so they didn’t care

Watched a coworker rent an entire big box retail store parking lot to a BMW dealership for cash on the side so they could park excess inventory.

Corporate didn't know. He pocketed all the money.

Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.

Used a racial slur toward a Jewish co-worker in front of a customer. He claimed he didn't know that calling him a "Cheap J*w" was bad because all Jewish people love their money.

He was fired about a year later for sexual comments toward a married female customer.

In a hospital the person went out to get a patient and called out in the waiting room, "Where's my little (insert name of disease the infant had) baby?" Basically just told all the people in the room what disease the baby had and the mother's jaw dropped and was furious. Nothing happened. She ended up quitting on her own 3-4 years later.

Worked at a Video Game retailer, yeah that one, back when I was fresh out of college. The Nintendo Wii was due to be released the following week and we were no longer taking pre-orders. Some guy comes in with his girlfriend and wanted to preorder but couldn’t so he tried to bribe my coworker with $20 to get one anyway. Store was full of customers and our supervisor was present. Coworker busts out laughing, walks around the counter, puts an arm around the guys shoulder, literally busting a gut, wheezing with laughter. Suddenly he stops laughing, looks the guy dead in the face and yells, “20 bucks?!?! GO SUCK A D**K!”

Guy’s face turned bright red and his girlfriend and the entire store started laughing at him. Never saw the guy again. Manager said that was hilarious but don’t ever do that again.

Coworker was let go months later for gift card fraud shortly after I was promoted and transferred to another store.

tried his damndest to sleep with the bosses wife while out at a work party. got fired months later for something completely unrelated

It's a tie...

1) Supervisor engaged in sexual intercourse with one of his associates bent over her work space.

2) Supervisor leaving a company function, hit two cars in front of three cops, ran, ran a red light, then drove back to the plant, across the back lot, bogged down to the axels and was caught trying to run away on foot.

A director of customer engagement publicly, in a department wide recorded meeting, told everyone he was going to participate in wage theft against his subordinates. I've never downloaded and saved a zoom meeting faster. Then, when he didn't get reprimanded or anything, I took that video to the labor board and sued them for wage theft. It just boggles my mind how a popular, well known start up would allow someone like that to remain on staff. Last I heard, half the call center was going after them for wage theft under the same condition that I did.

Supervisor freaked the f**k out on the sales guy and just clocked out. It was a super busy shipping day and he was just done. He got to the end of the driveway and turned around and clocked back in and they just acted like he didn't tell them to f**k off lol

Not do her job. Find any excuse to avoid work. Spend half the day chatting on the phone. Then work unapproved overtime, claiming that she had too much work and needed to catch up. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stephanie. Worst co-worker I ever had.

The dude showed up drunk to work. He drove.

Manager sent him home. I asked why he wasn't fired and she said it was because he never clocked in, so he technically wasn't intoxicated at work.

Looking back, I think that manager really wanted to jump that guys bones.

A guy got a dui and lost his license for three months and didn't tell anyone at work about. He drove a company truck daily for work and they only found out after he got his license back. I know he was still there 5 years later.

Literally not working. She would get to work at 6:30 and I would see her leaving as I pulled in at 8:00. Her boss hadn’t even arrived yet. This was like 4-5 days per week. She maybe stayed till 2:00 on the good days. They tried to fire her and were told it was impossible to fire anyone for anything at a university. They waited for the grant to run out and then didn’t put her on the new one. It took 2 years.