119 Work Secrets Employees Discovered That They Probably Shouldn't Have

All this stuff is so negative...I’m gonna throw a positive one out there!

My boss is secretly a competitive ballroom dancer and he’s too embarrassed to tell anyone. I found out when my girlfriend and I took a beginner course and he was in the studio working on a routine. I got sworn to secrecy but I think that’s so interesting.

At a previous job we had an HR manager get fired right after returning from maternity leave. She was replaced by the guy that she trained to fill in for her while she was gone. She sent a company wide email with the pay rate of everyone from the plant manager on down. It was a s**t show. A lot of pay rates were wildly different in management/supervision and maintenance. There were talks of workstop strikes and slowdowns, even threats of unionizing. I believe that this one act lead to the eventual closure of the plant. It was a crazy time.

Not a current job but at a past job, my manager quit and the CEO gave me access to his emails so I could find information about how to do projects he only knew about.

I started looking for all the salary information from all the co-workers on my team. Found out I was being paid significantly less than the person who previously had my position.

I went and negotiated about a 40% raise with the CEO based on that information.

I know the key code to a store room I'm not really supposed to. I use it for naps

After reading the other stuff, mine is kinda boring.

But i spent company money on an ice cream machine that i hide in my office.

Casino worker. There are a disturbing amount of suicides that happen on property. Almost none are reported to the public.

My boss has been banging the secretary, who is married, for years, and it’s a secret that the secretary’s first kid (14 yo) is my boss’ biological child.

my boss is also married with kids.

From my last job...

"Under no circumstances are you even to look at what's going on in the other half of the plant."

What was going on? They were building an automated side. Got replaced by a robot a year later.

My boss stores beer in the server room because the temperature is always kept cool

Once instead of receiving my paycheck, I received a file containing every paycheck of everybody in the company. Thus, I knew how much money everybody were making, what benefits they had, etc. (Including the CEO and high management)

Not my current job, but when I worked in logistics my boss, head of outbound operations didn't have a high school diploma and and the job required a college degree. She lied on her resume to get the job.

She was an amazing boss, though. She didn't micromanage, she called me on my shit and screw-ups when they occurred but was never mean or "power-trippy" about it. She offered suggestions to increase efficiency, but they weren't required, we just had to test them out, keep what worked, discard what didn't. Somehow, she always was able to make me feel proud of a job well done, while still making determined to do better. Probably the best boss I've worked for to date. And that includes 6 years of self-employment.

She was fired a few months after I left for lying on her resume.

I’m a nanny. Short answer - everything. I hear all of the whispers you think I can’t hear from the next room. Your kids know/talk more than you think. Google fills in your search history when I’m ordering more diapers. I pull the receipts out of the dryer that fell out of your pants pockets. The iPad the kids use has the photo account linked across all of your devices.

I don’t snoop intentionally, but just as a byproduct of being in the home all day and working with a family so intimately I definitely know most/all of the family secrets. Even the secrets that Momboss and Dadboss may be keeping from each other. I just pretend not to know anything at all until I’m directly told. I would never tell these things to anyone, but make sure you really trust your nannies. And/or have a non-disclosure clause in their contract.

Someone has been stealing things from everyone's desks in our office. I setup a teddy cam on someone's desk (with their permission) to find out who was doing it. Turns out it's the owner of the company.

Since a lot of people are asking. I confronted him about it in private. Over the course of 2-3 months the majority of things started reappearing and the stealing came to a stop after that. At least for the most part, occasionally something would go missing but it wasn't near as often.

The reason there's high turnover is because management fired the one competent manager for being too kind.

There is a removable panel in the restroom that allows access to various pipes in the wall. It also allows you to perfectly hear meetings in the superintendents office. I've learned lots of juicy things I'm not supposed to know about.

1)some coworkers were having sex on company property on company time they thought management wouldn’t find out. Management found out.

2)My top boss has anxiety and would practice his speech to my direct supervisor before giving it to everyone.

3)My boss isn’t nice behind closed doors. I heard him talk so much shit about my coworkers.

My office purposily messes up people's wages to see if A) they're honest about receiving extra or B) they can save money by not paying it all. It's such a scum thing to do just glad it never happened to me.

That at my “zero drug tolerance” workplace the CEOs executive assistant and the head of HR do coke on weekends together. So I know when they’re not going out that weekend there’ll be a workplace drug test the end of the next week.

Everyone's passwords. We store them in cleartext. It's horrifying.

Not really something I’m not meant to know but more something the public aren’t meant to know about an old place of work: the vegetarian roasts aren’t vegetarian.

The CEO does coke before public speaking