People Who Work In HR Anonymously Share The Biggest Office Scandals They’ve Had To Deal With, And Here Are 30 Of The Wildest Ones

Two concurrent office dramas that resulted in a mass firing.

First, my boss (m late-thirties), an ex-middle school teacher, hired and then knocked up an 18 year he used to teach. This is after he showed up to work a month before with a black eye, a gift from the baby daddy of the other teenage employee he was sleeping with. He was fired, divorced,and estranged from his own teenage children.

Meanwhile, his office enemy, another department director, was fired for paying her own employee to be her child surrogate.

We had a team building day and the CEO made it so his team won. The 3 married people (not to each other) had sex in the hot tub.

The #2 or #3 HR lady got drunk at the holiday party and groped a bunch of people, stuck her tongue in someone’s ear and fondled a guy’s wife. The head of HR swept it all under the rug and told all the witnesses and people she grabbed to “manage it properly”.

I quit pretty soon after that. F**k that place.

Back in 2000ish one of my coworkers had a giant crush on a guy in the office. Eventually they started dating, then one day his fiance showed up to confront him....as did the three other women in the office he was banging. He was due to be deployed in two weeks, almost the perfect crime.

Not HR, but One of the founders was having an affair with the head of Human Resources. All that ended at some point and later they found out the head of HR was lying on her resume about her degrees lol. That was an awkward day - I sat right outside their offices and got to watch her slowly take all her stuff out of her office while he ignored her.

One shift lead having an affair with his wife with another shift lead girl at work.

They both opened the store in the morning, and before any customers arrived they would bang on the prep table, wtf.

One day when I had to check the cameras for something, I was watching it on fast forward starting from that morning and was shocked to see them doing it lol. I watched it for a bit before spilling the beans to my manager.

My female boss was banging her male boss in the parking garage. Working late and her cell phone off, my bosses husband came looking for her and found them in her car. Fight ensued. Got the story from the garage security guy. My boss and her boss both had black eyes the next day at work. I didn't get to see what the husband looked like. Both bosses continued their jobs like it never happened.

A guy I hired (and fired a week later due to poor performance) got caught robbing a bank a few weeks later....

Not HR, but I once received an email that wasn't meant for my eyes.

A female coworker was angry with a male coworker (both from a different department, I didn't know them) since he had promised to leave his wife for him after they already had a lengthy affair.

I told my boss and he recommended I would simply delete the email and pretend it didn't happen.

We had to fire an Union worker. She was on this weird feminism power trip. She wanted to see more women in the positions that were generally male dominated. And, honestly, that's fine. But how she went about was a lawsuit in the making. Actively sabotaging men in a bid to get them fired then throwing temper tantrums when caught. Forcing untrained women into positions that they weren't certified in. And then, if you were a woman and spoke out against being forced into a position that you weren't trained in and wanted to get into a safer role into you had the training, she would turn against you and try to have you fired. This was at a plant with horribly toxic metals, molten metal around 1400 degrees, and machines that could take a person's hand off in a single stroke. Like, if we have an accidental release, every house in a 3 block radius would need to be evacuated type of danger.

Then there was this other chick. Came here with that same feminist stuff. But in her case, it presented itself in her wardrobe. She was in constant violation of the dress code. Our dress code is there so we don't get them chemicals, molten metal and whatever on us. And her dumbass was walking around in thigh-high boots and tiny mini-skirts. Everytime someone would say something she would act like it's sexism and s**t. Eventually, one of our visiting customers took issue with how she was dressed and complained. This chick tried to pull the sexism card again until she learned that the customer in question was a woman. Then it became out how this customer was setting the feminist movement back and s**t. This employee ended up on this s**t list for a lot of the higher-ups because of this. So when the bathroom incident happened, everyone knew she was gone. Everyone but her apparently. So yeah, she went to used a men's bathroom over a women's just because she felt like it. While she was in there, a man came in to take a p**s. She lost her mind and tried to act like she was in danger and demanded he should be fired. For the guy's part, he didn't even know she was there. Just came in, went straight to the urinal, then walked out. She had been watching him through the fabled stall gap. When she was asked why she didn't go to any of the other women's bathrooms on this floor (there's five women's bathroom to three men's) she wasn't able to answer the question. Well, after her termination, she came back with a lawsuit. Claiming she was fired due to sexism. She loss and the company cracked down harder on dress code violations and making sure people understood which bathrooms they were supposed to be using.