43 Work Drama Stories To Entertain You If Your Office Is The Most Boring Place On Earth

I said hello to a colleague and told her that her perfume smelled nice. Next day I was brought into a HR meeting with my boss because this passing comment made her feel uncomfortable. Safe to say I never said anything to her again.

Managers dog pooped in the middle of room of senior leaders on a training session.

Company I'm in sent out a company wide pdf about 'micro aggressions' in the workplace. We all ridiculed it because it included things like 'don't tell someone that they are doing a good job when they are doing normal things' or 'don't call women babe and love in the workplace' or my personal favorite 'don't comment on a woman's body.

My whole team ridiculed it and it's a common pun nowadays when we joke, because we have women not only in our team, but also working with us from other teams and we are all actively quite professional and respectful towards them.

It turns out the pdf was sent out because very VERY senior members of the company were doing the things in it.

2 blokes in their 50s got into a fistfight in the car park as one had lent the other his binoculars and he wanted them back because some students had moved in across the road and he wanted to perv on them.

We were having cash flow issues and hadn’t paid the bill to the company who supplied our shop floor consumable items. The items were stored in vending machine type cupboards which gave you the items you asked for.

The owner of the consumables company managed to get into the building by lying to the new receptionist and he put padlocks and chains across all the vending machines so we couldn’t use them.

At a work Xmas party one year, one of the apprentices (I think he was about 18/19) had a bit too much to drink.

He proceeds to slap one of the girls in HR (who had organised the whole event) then squared up to one of the directors who was old enough to be his dad.

Surprisingly, all that happened was he was kicked out of the party but welcomed back to work on the following Monday without any repercussions for slapping the HR girl. Not surprising though, a lot worse happened in the 4 years I was there and not a single person was fired.

My high school computing teacher had an affair with the other computing teacher. Both decided to leave their partners, but at the last minute, he decided not to and stay with his wife.

Parents evening was the next day and the lady computing teacher storms in and calls him all the bastards in the middle of one of his appointments.

She gets disciplined but gets back into school not long later.

However then the mad lad gets caught in a supply cupboard with a DIFFERENT teacher, and has an affair with her too.

I then left school and didn't find out what happened after, but I bumped into him a few years later and he's now married to the first affair computing teacher...

I used to work for a reputable parcel company but a lot of the work and routes are subcontracted out to service partners. It’s hit and miss whether a driver ends up with a good subcontractor or not.

The business typically got phone calls saying “I’ve not been paid for last month, I need to speak to somebody!” And we’d have to tell them to take it up with their service provider as it’s them they’ve worked for, not the company.

But one guy was screaming at us in person that he was about to be kicked out because he couldn’t pay his rent and hadn’t been paid by one of the companies, and then he took it to the extreme and decided to lay down on the floor by the exit gate to stop vehicles getting out.

He ended up having to be dragged up and out by a site manager.

Old job, guy was caught sniffing a female coworkers chair and was sent to work in a literal cabin in the woods

Fairly tame, but my office is kinda dull. Co worker 1 (F) had a car with broken heating and another coworker, generally a friendly guy, brought in some hand warmers for her to use under gloves on the way home (this was in January). She declined and he thought nothing further of it- he would have done this for anyone. A couple of days later, one of the other coworkers (2) came and said to him that co worker 1 was trying to find a way to let him down gently as she was in a long term relationship and didn’t see him that way. He was confused by this as he has told her he was interested in someone else, and asked coworker 2 to tell coworker 1 that he wasn’t interested in her like that but she refused because the drama was funny to her.

He eventually left the department, with the resulting awkwardness being a deciding factor.

I work in an almost silent office 99% of the time and we have a very quite dude who sits in the corner, he doesn't really speak to others and when you do engage in conversation it's always two things - how bad the traffic and weather is. Anyway the whole office of around 10 or so people had about 2-3 minutes of louder talking than usual and he stormed out of the office slammed the door and put in an official complaint that the environment was unprofessional and the noise levels were unacceptable. I would understand if the complainant was autistic and sensitive to sounds, but the guy is fully grown adult who just threw his toys out the pram because for a few minutes it was louder than usual. My boss basically ignored his complaint though as he was part of the noise!

I have a friend who works for his dad, along side his brother (family business) my friend has now had an affair with his brother's wife and neither of them can work at the same time as eachother so my friend now goes into work and does a night shift, arrives after his brother has left, and before he arrives in the morning.

I outed an affair by mistake when I was an apprentice. I knew that one of the managers just got married. I got lumped on the end of the table with her at the Christmas meal. Next to her was a bloke from the workshop who I didn't really know either. It was so obvious that they were in a relationship, but I just assumed it was her husband.

The next Monday I said something about getting lumbered with her and her husband. I got told that's not her husband, her husband is X. I was like well if that's not her husband they aren't half close. Queue the rumour going around that she's seeing the bloke out of the workshop. Couple of weeks later she gets divorced from her husband and is pregnant with the other bloke's kid so they get married to eachother.

Mine involved me. A colleague heard that I was severely arachnophobic, so decided to email me a huge photo, which immediately sent my into adrenaline overload. I stormed over over the his desk, with him pissing himself, at which point I hit him (open handed). Massive square off ensues.

This being a recruitment agency, with me being a high performer, it was swept under the carpet.

On top of that we had a shared line, where you'd have to put callers through to one another. We had a cold war of not speaking for a good while, bar putting calls through to each other, till the Christmas party came and we drunkenly made up.

A colleague once jokingly threw a foam ball at another colleague who was pregnant, this caused an entire scene and she broke down crying. Ran all the way to HR and reported the bloke, who threw the foam ball because they were jabbing at each other about football.

It was honestly such a cringe moment as an on-looker.

The boss tickling his PA all but confirmed their affair that they thought was top secret, yet was wide out in the open.

Also those 3-day trade shows that we knew were only a 2-day event.

And the company credit card receipts for Top Shop.

Two women got into a fight over my father at his (and their) place of work. A proper fight.

He was in a relationship with a woman he worked with (who he'd left my mother for), then cheated on her with another women he worked with. (They didn't directly with together but we're all in the same office for at least part of the week and all knew each other).

He's so not worth it ! He's a good father but relationship wise he's the kind of person who'd cheat on a woman with someone from the same office. What's to fight over ?

At the time I was volunteering at the office (unemployed and needed a reference - so he suggested and arranged this) and the woman he cheated on was supervising me. I wasn't there for the fight (she she never had a problem with me) but it was still very uncomfortable.

I liked the first woman.

I worked in a relatively small office of about 16 people, that was the whole company in one office.

Anyway one employee made a very off-colour sexist joke to someone (privately)... another employee overheard and took real issue with it.

To the point they were considering having to build a stud-wall to divide the office in two because she insisted his presence was giving her anxiety.

There were 3 people in the office that were men. The idiot made the joke ended up leaving of his own steam in the end - allegedly.

A guy had cheated on his wife with one of his co-workers, and the co-worker had then for some reason turned everyone against him and shared all their filthy texts to each other with everyone else. So the entire workforce basically marginalised him, including the managers.

My workplace at the time always attracted younger people. We had 4 or 5 new starters who were 18 or 19, one of the girls was being picked on by the other 4.

Something snapped and she chucked a bottle of water over her. She was quickly fired that day. I don't agree with her actions but I don't blame her.

A manager slept with one of his supervisors (he was in a superior position), but his wife worked elsewhere in the company. It got pretty awkward when we all moved into one office together.