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

I work in a pretty well known financial institution. I see a select few people most days commit what could be described as negligent at best and downright reckless actions at worst. I'm on a relatively low level so they presume I don't see but I'm just waiting for auditors/regulators to tear the place to shreds.

At one of my old jobs I was responsible for processing expense reports. One day I came across the company CEO's "business" expense report. The trip was a trip to Hawaii for him and his spouse and another person + spouse. The "business" trip includes extravagant meals and excursions. I questioned it but was ultimately was told just to process it since he's the CEO. Few years later (and after quitting the company) the company was pretty much gone. HAHA!

Learnt on a closing shift at one place I worked that if you can convince the higher ups that you smoke, you get a 10 minute paid smoke break every hour on top of your break.

The guards at one of our sites aren't armed because they'd have to pay more and it would be harder to hire qualified people. They just had a shooting there. Not surprised one person quit over it.

One of my managers, who I'm not too fond of but is mutual friends with many of my friends, is dealing coke in the restaurant I work at. Both to employees and to guests.

I worked in a restaurant, where the General Manager was incompetent and corrupt. The restaurant was violating numerous health code regulations. Every now and then, she would rush frantically through the place screaming at everyone to clean something up, label the food with dates, get that chicken out of hot water, etc. It seems she had a friend who worked at the Health Department, who would call her with a heads up that they were on their way over there to inspect the place.

I used to work for a pet store. My boss was such a crook. She would make photocopies of the vaccines the kitten/puppy got... It was always the same photocopies. She would lie just to get a sale, even if it meant hurting an animal. She would refuse to provide proper treatment to the animals we had. We had a whole litter of puppies die from parvo... A lot of hamster died from wet tail... We would find 5 to 10 guppies dead every morning because she refused to put in a water heater in their tank... She would constantly yell at us because we weren't selling enough. She wanted us to sell about 1 000$ worth of accessories if someone bought a kitten or a puppy. If we did, we would get 50$ bonus on our pay check... We never actually got any of those "bonuses"... And last but not least, we had an old cash register where you have to manually input the taxation percentages. Well, she would charge 15.5% of tax instead of 15%... I lasted 3 months. Just couldn't take more than that.

The boss makes a whole lot more money than he wants us to believe. If you believe him he and his family are a hairs width from living under a bridge. Nevermind the brand new 70" smart TV for the office...

I work for a major car rental company that is now more than 15 billion dollars in debt, nobody will loan them money to replace it's aging fleet and there is no hope of making that money back. The State of Florida is currently suing them over toll charges practices.

I have found this information by reading stock Market analysis, I know for a fact they are not clueing any of the local managers about it.

The C-Level churn rate for this company is amazing.

I believe if we got OJ Simpson to do some commercials for us again it would boost our revenue

Was a bus driver in the UK for Arriva. Instead of windscreen washer fluid, they use water.

Before CCTV was common, was a shelf stacker at a co-op. Come in to find the boss has 'resigned', with the police getting called in. Turns out he had stolen stock over at least a year in the low 5 figure range. Had a couple of people in on it. He basically invented a chronic shoplifting problem by claiming that shoplifters who had been caught past and present had stolen a lot more than they had. Write it off and take the stuff from back of shop. Got off scot free somehow

My boss is sexually harassing my colleague and there is nothing I can do about it. She is afraid of losing her job and we don't have any proof of misconduct to denounce him.

I used to work at the University of Iowa as a secretary in administration. The rules stated that they had to accept a lateral transfer from another department they didn’t want. I heard them plan to stick this brand new person in the busiest area and then discipline them out when they inevitably made mistakes. Her failure was planned before she even worked her first day.

A year later, my supervisor changed and they did the exact same thing to me, firing me for “too many typos”. Still boils my blood.

In the past on three separate occasions I’ve known about people getting fired before THEY knew they were fired.

The factory manager that recently "retired" in his 50s actually was sexually harassing two women engineers in their 20s that opened an HR case together. I've tried to ask why he gets to get off with reputation intact and HR says it's company policy to keep investigations private. One of his personal photographs from his travels is still hanging in the cafeteria with his name on it.

Former job. They'd falsify DOT records, so managers would get a nice bonus at the end of the year for not having any incidents.

The hiding place for the key and the lock code to the controlled drugs closet

I had a job years ago I was working in a Primary / elementary school as a cleaner . My supervisor was the School's janitor. I got him fired as I had seen him follow the little girls when they went into the toilet and then he would stand on the toilet in the next cubicle and fap off while watching them go to the toilet. I took a photo on my phone of him and showed it to the headmaster and he told me if I showed it to anyone else he would fire me and then made me delete the photo which I had to do. Thankfully I was able to retrieve it later which I did and I rang the school board and got talking with a really nice lady who told me she would take this further. Both the janitor and the headmaster were fired from their jobs and the janitor was arrested. He had been doing it for some time and the headmaster kept quiet about it as they were cousins. If any child said anything they were told that this had to happen as the janitor was "looking out for them in case they were having any trouble in the toilet" and they were too young to believe otherwise as the only girls the janitor spied on were between the ages of 4 and 6. I was allowed to keep my job.

I know everyone on our wifi, and their devices and where they've been coupled with how they are affiliated to our company. My boss does a report daily for the cio with my metrics. Part of me wants to know why, part of me doesn't. They have a pathing system that tracks movement for 30 days that I had made for emergency exiting plans, it's not being used for that.

That with a day or two of effort, I could draft a full proposal for eliminating my job and the other four people who do my job. It's completely unnecessary and the organization wastes, conservatively, $200,000 a year on salary and benefits for us to perform a very small number of tasks that could easily be delegated elsewhere or replaced with an outside service.

I suspect it's one of those "being taken care of" situations. The other four employees are all women and have all been there for 15-20 years. Nobody wants to pull these old fossils into the office and say "You're a grown adult who gets paid a grown adult salary to sit around on Facebook and answer the phone three times in an eight hour shift, get the fuck outta here". Private sector, the position would have been eliminated a decade ago.

I mean, it's nice that I'm employed, but the job is a complete waste of time and money. You know that book "Bullshit Jobs"? This is it.

Not employed there anymore, but I knew my boss made videos of himself in his office chair fully nude shooting baby batter all over himself. How? He “accidentally” uploaded one into an ftp folder I was using for an ongoing shared project.