67 Times People Witnessed The Pettiest Work Dramas They Just Had To Gossip About

We had this interim manger who did nothing, never prepped or read anything and just approved everything. He also had his ‘personal ventures’ on the side so sometimes wouldn’t even come in for a couple days. Then one week hes was not working cuz of his ‘personal ventures’ and i was send to the Caribbean for a work trip. After my work day i decided to go to the beach and still soak up some sun. Guess who walks past my sunbed?! Our interim manager with a blond woman who definitely was NOT his wife!

the CEO was micromanaging every little thing we did when we opened. My boss instructed us to send him multiple pictures and multiple videos every single day of us opening the building. the CEO then received about 16 pictures/videos around 5am every day from us until quit 3 weeks later.

My ex colleague was reported for making hard boiled eggs in the kitchen’s kettle….we then were lectured about hygiene in a workspace

Someone I’ve worked for 15 years still gets my name wrong when it’s in my LITERAL email signature. so I email him back calling him the wrong name on purpose…

I messaged the national group chat with all the manages in it to ask if anyone else had been asked anyone to “smile more at work” and if it was a work place policy. I explained to my manager prior I just had two teeth pulled and even talking was still painful, and also I’m able to do my job, be pleasant and polite without smiling, she was rude about it so I messaged “I just want to open a forum to discuss this as this feels targeted and I’d like to clarify if smiling is written into my contract” 😁

I got a verbal warning for loudly saying "labubu" at our Christmas meeting during a lull. Not my fault others repeated it after me.

Someone expensed a meal at Burger King, and it included a side of onion rings. His boss rejected the expense saying he didn’t really need the onion rings. It’s used in every example of what to expense vs what not to 😂

There was a company bake off competition and first prize was a spa day at a realllly nice spa. Turned out the winner had her mum, a professional cake baker, make the cake and passed it off as her own. People were outraged!

Every day arrived 15/20 minutes early to work for 5+ years working in a big open plan corporate office, I was 3 minutes late ONE time, ONCE! And I was reported to the director and I got pulled in for a chat about time keeping…..

Someone threatened to quit over a pot plant

My manager and I screamed at each other over my pink keyboard.

We once had a fire alarm at work so had to evacuate. The new manager couldn’t remember where the evacuation point was so just quit. Claimed she was overstimulated and no one told her anything

I was asked if I planned on getting pregnant anytime soon right before signing the contract after the 3 month trial period

Someone threw out her mango from the fridge and she went off with stress and we never saw her again.

A female boss got annoyed when I had to go to antenatal appointments and asked me why I couldn’t go at night. Also tried to force me to clear out a water-logged basement by lifting heavy boxes (I was in an Admin role). It was a long time ago. She [passed away] 😊

I seen 2 fully grown women nearly have a full on fist fight over a mop bucket 😳

Ended up in a HR meeting because another co worker thought I had an issue with him for weeks - I didn’t. When asked why he thought I was so mad at him it was because one morning when starting early after very little sleep I didn’t say "good morning"

Me & Husband worked together. We both got food poisoning, so needed 2 to 3 days off. We had a disciplinary for having time off at the same time as each other.

My entire office was made do anti bullying training because someone allegedly overheard a racist comment. Our team are from all over the world (Irish, Canadian, Chinese, Indian, Australian, Iranian). We weren’t told who said it or what was said. Nobody said anything but the president of the company did come over at one stage and say we were like the United Nations. We had to do the bullying training regardless. We all think it was him that said it and someone blamed us for it.

Charge nurse called my parents one time when I was late I’m 32 😂