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

About 20 years ago at a former workplace we were all told there was no money in the budget for a pay rise, which was overdue, for the entire department. Within a few weeks I discovered, face up on a supervisor's desk, the pay rates for the entire office. Despite "no money", our manager had recently received a 45% pay rise.

Worked in a hotel kitchen once where the owner's wife routinely salvaged food scraps scraped into the garbage from plates and insisted kitchen staff reuse them on new orders. Got out of there fast!

My former boss (who is married) had sex in his office with multiple employees. Shit leadership skills. He came from a naval background didn’t have a bloody clue what he was talking about unless it was navy stuff.

Office supervisor- had f**k buddies in the office. He would let them get away with murder in exchange for sexual favours. He would always talk about how much he got paid compared to everyone else. Never wanted to help anyone or give a shit.

The entire department is a complete shit show the good bunch of people who made the place decent either left or constantly got f**ked over. Hard workers never got a thank you

They sent out an email saying one of our coworkers is no longer employed with us, which means they got fired. They aren’t supposed to tell us why that person got fired, but one day the assistant director came up to me and asked if the fired coworker was still in a relationship with a certain client. Someone had mistakenly told her I might have information about it, but I had no idea. My department didn’t even work with that client. So now I know my coworker got fired for dating a client.

In the ’80s I worked at a large architectural firm; they had hired two college student interns to give them real-life work experience. The interns were given the assignment to create plan drawings for a proposed building that the senior architects were working on. They had completed their drawings and left them taped to their drawing boards overnight. The next day, the drawings were gone. The interns saw them displayed in a conference room – one or more of the architects had stolen them and claimed they were his / their work!

At a previous job I uncovered they were illegally skimming money by collecting “tax” from customers but not actually reporting the tax and paying it. Shortly thereafter I was fired for “no reason”... (Thanks at-will employment state)

I've been working for this man for 5 years, and I hated him with every cell in my body. I overheard him talking to my mom on the phone about me. What I heard made me cry. "Joel, we can't keep this secret from her forever. She has to know i'm alive..." My boss was my dad. My parents got a divorce before I was born, and they made an agreement. My mom would tell me my dad died in an accident, and my dad would never see me again. The worst part is before I quit, my last words to him were, "Burn in hell b*tch."

Nobody wanted to buy the subscription for our online services so now we sell a "server" for the same price that is little more than a metal box with a free subscription included.

At a previous job we had an IT guy who didn't like staff to be using their work computers for anything other than work. Emails were circulated stating that computers were property of work and should not contain any 'dodgy' materials.
So imagine my surprise when my apprentice at the time found an IT file on the network containing photos of IT chap's, I'm assuming, gay lover spread-eagled across a bed in a pair of stockings and suspenders. Always kept that one up my sleeve...just in case.

Walked in on a woman with her hand down her boyfriend’s pants, under the desk. Whilst her husband (who was in management) was in the next room and oblivious.

Felt terrible, the husband had no idea about the affair. Even though everyone else in the company did. He did eventually find out, and they got divorced, cos she got pregnant with the guy she was sleeping with at work :(

Twins! If you can believe it.

I worked at Travelers Insurance Inc. while working on my BA in Finance. I took the job because they offered tuition assistance of up to $5500 A year. I applied three times and got denied three times by my manager. I ask HR WTF! HR said they never revived any paperwork. I showed them all my copies and they told me the degree was not needed for my current position. Once I graduated I left and complained turning my exit interview to the regional VP. He told me no one in my department has ever been approved for tuition assistance. I worked in the call center which was approximately 450 people at the time.

We are outsourced and our clients and overheard the client relations officer mention our "hourly rate" during a meeting. Apparently, clients pay us $8/hour for our services but us employees are just paid $1-2/hour.

That the third floor isn't complete yet.

A colleague told me how he was reprimanded for talking about it to people not in the know.

I wasn't in the know...

Previous job. All the workers were told that there would be no pay rises (a whole 1-2%!) that year as the company was struggling financially.
I found out that all the managers received big fat bonuses (well into the $1000's) that year.
And they also made several people redundant, myself included, because of the 'financial struggles.'

In the 90's I was being made redundant from my teaching job. The manager of another said said to me that if i spent my last week spying on the other staff to see what they where thinking he would hire me for his department. I refused point blank and took my redundancy but I did tell the others what he tried to get me do. He still kept his job because he had friends in high places. At least i left with a clean concious.

I worked in a kitchen at a casino in south Seattle. Used the restroom and a guy completely meth'd out walked out of the stall. It smells like a burnt tire in there, I noticed he left a bag of crystal, a pipe, and a playboy lighter. I put on gloves, and put it in a non-see through bag, and awkwardly got my shift manager. I told him the story, and that we should call the police. He told me to flush it down the toilet or I would be fired. I threw it away in a garbage can and quietly went out the back and called the police, I thought I would get a reward for seeing and saying something. Turned out the guy that had the drugs was a big time blackjack player, would tweak out and spend hundreds on the game creating a big pot for the house to win. My manager knew he was money, so he refused to rat on him. Seattle casinos are all connected, a game of thrones more than cards. Never gamble in Seattle it's worse than Vegas.

One night while it was slow I was pulled to a different department and we were cruising around on the internet. They showed me how to look up the licensure board and we found out my manager had had her license suspended for drug diversion. She could no longer work as a CRNA so now she had this cushy office job bossing a bunch of us around. We discussed whether she'd been diverting them for herself or her partner. A while after I left there I found out she'd been fired for falsifying records.I guess if you're dishonest once you'll be dishonest again.....

I work in a well know London building and all post has to be put through a scanner meaning the post team can see what is in the parcels. There are several employees who shop regularly at Anne Summer's, Love Honey etc.

Previous job...
Me: your funeral director is watching porn at work and falling asleep in odd situations. I think he's on drugs.

Funeral home owner: Yes, the creepy funeral director really is watching porn at work (during funeral services taking place in the next room), but you're not supposed to look for more evidence anymore because it stresses us out.

Funeral home owners: Well the employee found his drugs, now we NEED to fire him. We are shorthanded...time to hire a 70 year old attendant, who preys on younger women and sexually harasses them, because we had to fire the creepy funeral director and need the help.

Me: I quit.

One large superannuation and insurance company wouldn't allow me to run a script over the development/test/uat databases after a restore from production to scramble names, addresses, etc of clients. So all our developers and testers could get private financial details of several hundred thousand people throughout the country.