23 People Share The Most Unhinged Things Their Colleagues Did At Work

To me the most frequent and frustrating, has been: I propose an idea. I get told, “No, that won’t work because XYZ”. Frustrating but, it happens. Male coworker proposes an idea, it gets put into action.

I’ve started calling it out? “Okay, that sounds like a great idea, it’ll definitely help boost ABC. To confirm - I had brought this up as an idea previously and we had decided not to do it at that time because XYZ. Have we changed our position on XYZ?”

It's also really fun if they treat my male assistant like the boss and me like the assistant even after it has been made clear who is who.

This was a few years ago, about... 14 years to be approximate. Feels like a life time ago though. I was a support contractor at a call center, and the company we were doing work for would occasionally send some of the senior support individuals to our office to teach us things, socialize, etc. During our team meeting that week, our manager... who was questionable in behavior at times said "now our visitor (by name) is going to get up on the table and dance for us", My brain automatically went to "nope, bad nightmare, that did not just happen". The following week those of us in the meeting had interviews with other management about the incident, HR reports were filed from the visitor with BOTH our company, and the parent company. it came to light that this wasn't the first series of HR reports for sexual misconduct. I'm unclear to this day - but he kept his job. At any respectable place of employment, pretty sure he would have been fired at that point. The Visitor said as long as he was employed there, she would Never under any circumstance come back to visit.

CEO called new place where I got a job offer from to ask them to rescind the job offer. Managing partner at new place had to explain the request was illegal. They did accounting services for a lot of companies and unfortunately let the company were they're poaching an employee know. I was not thrilled to find this out.

I took a thankfully second job offer I had and nope'd out.

CEO drove company into ground, they went bankrupt within two years.

My former boss literally threw a printer at another employee full force for leaving it on his desk without putting in a help desk support ticket.

I once had a tech that screwed up a task, not that significant a thing mind you but enough that another staff member emailed my boss to complain about it.

The tech logged into my bosses mailbox and deleted the email... after she had already read it and was talking to HR

30 seconds of pulling logs later he was fired.

You could have just gotten a slap on the wrist dude, but no you needed to turn it into an RGE didn't you?

I had a coworker brag to me that one of our clients that he did some web dev work on the side, separate from our MSP SLA paid him twice for the same work and didn’t notice. I was like dude…that’s basically stealing, you know they’ll eventually find out right? He was super proud of himself. My first thought was alright well this guy can’t be trusted.

A former fellow admin was caught spying on HR's emails.

User was phished. They changed their password back to the same password only changing a symbol. There were compromised again in under a week. Which I had to deal with on a Friday afternoon. Wasn’t pleased.

edit: oh yeah and no 2fa because I can't convince the boss otherwise.

Was told a story about a previous exec who was 1000% certain that his laptop was faulty. When he was told that, "No, I can't just give you a new one" he violently slammed it to the ground in front of the IT Manager at the time and walked away. He was eventually fired, but for other performance based reasons.

A coworker still falls asleep from time to time during IT meetings and org wide meetings. Usually scares himself awake, you know because the pen goes flying.

Passive aggressive emails. I had a boss who would send me an email criticizing my work or questioning me on why I did something and cc’d everyone else in my office when it was clearly directed at me. Plus, they would do it while sitting in their office that was 10 feet from my desk when I was at my desk. Finally at a staff meeting I said to the person, in front of everyone: “if you need to discuss a work related issue with me, please come talk to me about it in person because cc’ing everyone in an email directed at me is extremely passive aggressive.” He never acknowledged the issue, but never did it again.

Plus being mansplained to or treated like I’m incapable multiple times: I once had someone tell me at a training that the training wasn’t for someone in my position in the company and they started telling me I wouldn’t understand the subject matter and it wouldn’t be relevant to me... I was actually the trainer, they just didn’t know it yet.

Last month someone asked me if I would drive on site (I've worked from home since I was hired and I live over an hour from my job site) to scan some documents for them, and referred to me as the intern in the email chain requesting my assistance.

I'm 25 years old, have a master's degree, have a lot of work experience, etc..Gotta love being a woman working with engineers.

I once worked at an MSP that provided on-site and remote support for a couple of, major, hotel chains. The, mostly married, guys that I worked with used to brag about being "King of the [help] Desk", in relation to how many people they'd managed to have an affair with. They even had a rule, requiring them to prove they'd done the deed, via a WhatsApp group (so, again, not only were they doing this behind their families backs, but they were taking photos/ videos for 'bro-points'). A really, scummy, outfit.

I stayed for 2 months before high-tailing it out of there.

It was a family-run business, too.

A co worker was an absolute perv. Constantly talking about female colleagues in a sexual manner, values by them by their appearance. I’m no SJW, but people deserve respect according to their ability. I left. He’s now a regional managing director…….

A doctor threw a binder full of paper at a nurse's head. She reported him to HR and SHE was fired because apparently whatever she said to him to provoke him was worse than physical violence.

Yes, I still work here, thankfully it wasn't that bad. But it's on that track again.

Yelling. I had a boss years ago who thought it was appropriate to close his office door and yell at employees. He was shocked when HR paid him a visit and explained this was not acceptable behavior.

My friend’s ex boss broke a computer on a desk and literally destroyed the laptop and everything on the desk all because the employee couldn’t take a joke and asked why.

Well, I am hot headed too and talk in a bad mood often, so I maybe should not complain too much ?

but when I was in training, it was my first year working....
I was on a call with a customer, doing support
then my boss next door started yelling and screaming and threw his keyboard, he was unsatisfied with (was not working) out of the office
it was just a few inches behind my head... it could have hit me


well... that was one of the good starts into IT! btw I hated that company then and now. I left as soon as I finished my training.

I work in administration and the most annoying rude thing that repeatedly happens to me is IT staff talking down to me. I’m a millennial, my husband is a network engineer, and I’ve been working in admin for 14 years, a role which has always included some level 1 / desktop tech support. It’s beyond condescending to refer to the Ethernet cable as the Ethernet cable for a whole conversation and then have the person you’re talking to describe the “internet cable” to you in intricate detail and then say “actually whoever is working at will know what you need if you just ask for a new internet cable, you can always call me and I can explain it to him”