Reddit user PriceBorn9413 recently asked, “What’s the wildest office drama that happened in your workplace?” Dear reader, I lit up like a Christmas tree when I saw this thread. Oh yes, people spilled all sorts of company tea. Here’s what was revealed:
1. “I had a coworker who slept with our coworker’s husband (this was a place with a super small staff, only about five people), so it was kind of a big deal. She also faked a whole pregnancy (not with the husband) but with someone in another country that didn’t even know she existed. It was a wild time.”
—PurpleCoffeeDrank
2. “After 15 years, my most spicy story is a dude got fired for installing monitoring software on his work laptop to catch his wife cheating on him. They were both using the work laptop as a personal PC off hours. So weird.”
—Brock_Youngblood
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3. “This lady got hired for some management position. She showed up to training on the second day completely nude. Story time: This lady was hired for a management position and began the moving process for this new opportunity. I don’t believe she had settled into her new home/apartment/wherever she was going to live long-term yet. She shows up for training on the first day, and everything goes fine. The trainers and trainees go out after training for dinner and drinks. Sounds like a few of the trainees kept the party going once the trainers left. The lady in question had a few too many and decided to sleep overnight in someone’s office. Some offices had couches, so I assume she just chose a random one. Welp, 8 a.m. rolls around, and she walks into training completely nude. Apparently, she was still drunk from the night before and either forgot about the work stuff or wasn’t bothered by it. The trainer freaked out and covered her with a blanket. She was fired.”
—202glewis
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4. “This HR woman had a friends-with-benefits relationship with a married coworker. That coworker’s wife lost her job and applied at our firm. She gets a job as a regional finance officer. The HR woman knew this and wasn’t happy seeing the husband and wife eating lunch together. The HR woman tried to fire her using false evidence that she was allocating funds to departments outside her jurisdiction. The husband got mad at the HR woman. They decide to meet up at a hotel (like, yeah, a hotel doesn’t seem sus…) to talk things over. The HR woman set up a camera to film them having some angry sex. She sent this to his wife out of anger.”
“The wife leaves her house and tells her husband that she is going to her parents because her mom is sick. Two days later, the husband, HR woman, and wife are called to see higher management. Both the man and the HR woman were fired immediately. The wife kept her job and divorced her husband. We were talking about it for months.”
—lvl_60
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5. “We have wellness rooms for napping or taking a moment; they are single rooms with a lock. One day, there was a sign posted that read, ‘Maximum one person at a time.’ That’s how the whole floor found out that two people were enjoying ‘wellness’ together.”
—Plus_Possibility_240
6. “At our hotel, the maintenance director and the banquets director were caught in a room together by guests. The maintenance guy used his master key to open the door and forgot to put the room out of service in the system. The room was sold in the morning, and the guests walked in on them. Both were immediately fired and had to go home to their respective spouses to explain why.”
—Stock-Conflict-3996
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7. “The manager was pretty abrasive, with boundary issues likely due to different cultural backgrounds (intense micromanagement, personal space issues, would follow you to the bathroom, and either ask you work status questions in the stall or wait outside the bathroom for you). The team was already pretty drama-filled and didn’t respect her. One teammate seemed pretty unstable. The manager noticed the teammate’s laptop was unlocked when they were away from their desk. I saw the manager type something and walk back to her office.”
“The teammate came back and started shrieking and freaking out. The manager had sent a resignation email as written by the teammate, and then responded as the manager accepting the resignation. The manager responded that the employee shouldn’t have left the laptop open. HR got involved. The employee kept her job for a while but was fired within a couple of months of the incident. Around the same time, the manager got transferred to another team within the department.”
—JustTiredOfThisPlace
8. “I worked at a pharmacy where floater pharmacists would come to cover shifts. Apparently, they were monitoring one of them and discovered he was writing all kinds of control scripts for himself and using random people to use their insurance. Guy ended up getting sued and sent to jail. Wild stuff. Cool guy, had some pretty great lunch conversations, probably because he was high for a lot of it.”
—Electrical-Bird-5319
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9. “This girl I used to work with fell pregnant. Now, she was a bit of a party girl, so there ended up being four potential fathers. She narrowed it down to one, and they went through the pregnancy together. After the baby was born, the father asked for a paternity test and discovered the baby wasn’t his. Now the workplace drama comes into play when, sometime later, it was discovered that the actual father was one of our married coworkers (not one of the original four) who kept their little affair very quiet. I don’t know if she ever told him that he was the father, as he left the business before all this came out.”
—The_Imortails
10. “We had a serial pooper who would use the toilet, then leave a mountain of toilet paper. Like, not a little pile that might have said ‘I have IBS’ or ‘I don’t know how to wipe my own butt properly,’ but a towering mountain of shredded paper waste that could not be cleaned easily or just flushed down the toilet (as per the angry emails from the facility manager). I saw it once, and it was at least a foot of toilet paper above the toilet, cascading down and over the seat. I have no idea how anyone could have had the time to do this and not get caught, considering management had caught someone masturbating in that bathroom. I worked there for years, and they never caught the serial pooper. It only stopped when we had to move buildings to a new parent company’s headquarters that had cameras everywhere.”
—EachManIsALittleWar
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11. “At my old job, two coworkers were secretly dating, but nobody knew…until one of them accidentally sent a very romantic (spicy) message into the entire company group chat instead of a private DM. HR got involved, people started picking sides like it was a TV show, and meetings were suddenly way more awkward. Productivity that week was basically zero.”
—Fortray-global-Ltd
12. “A guy got fired for using his company credit card to get cash advances every weekend at a casino. The wildest part was that he managed to get away with it for almost a year. Also, he was at the casino because it was where he would meet his girlfriend, with whom he was having an affair. Also the girlfriend and ex wife both worked with us. Super dumb. But how did he get away with it for so long??”
—MakeToastNotWar
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13. “A guy got caught having an affair with his assistant. Tale as old as time, right? Wrong. When the rumor mill started going, I could hear shouting from the floor. Two guys were beating the shit out of each other as they both were ‘dating’ her and couldn’t figure out who was cheating on whom. When the dust settled, four guys in the department came forward and said that they were all having relations with her. Two of whom were married. I spent hours in meetings and ‘training’ dealing with the fallout from that chaos.”
—ChaosActual_
14. “We were a small division of a very big tech company selling PC components – memory sticks, Ethernet cards, etc. One of the managers created a bogus company and generated phony sales orders. His girlfriend worked in accounting and generated fake payment records. They had the stuff shipped to his relatives’ house and sold it at flea markets from there. They got caught when a product was recalled due to a safety issue. Since the gear was shipped across state lines and they used the US Mail, the FBI and USPSIS got involved. One day, the FBI and state police came in and took them away in handcuffs.”
—JustSomeGuy_56
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Business man crime.
15. “A few people had sex in a conference room after hours. Not really wild by itself, but they recorded it and posted it online. The company name was really visible in big letters on the wall, and the people involved were fired almost immediately. No one would stop talking about it for weeks.”
—dragon567
16. “Not me, but a friend. They hired a new salesperson shortly before their Christmas party and invited her to attend before she started. The party was at the boss’s house, and it was fairly formal. She showed up alone, proceeded to get hammered, sat on the boss’s lap with his wife in the room, tried to kiss him, and he pushed her off. She then hit on several other men, but they all refused her advances. A bit later, she fell down the stairs — like, the entire flight. She was crawling around trying to get on her feet, grabbed a limb from their Christmas tree to pull herself up, and pulled the tree down. She was going to be fired on her first day of work, but she didn’t show up.”
—Meredithbaxterburly
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17. “My first job out of college was at a major tech firm (that you’ve definitely heard of). It’s been around a long time and is one of the companies that basically set standards for professional corporate stereotypes. A few months in, we started hearing a rumor that there was a giant turd on the floor in the men’s bathroom. People couldn’t tell whether someone had just missed or it was intentional. Then the next week it happened again. And it kept happening, sometimes multiple times a week. Going into the bathroom was a literal crap shoot on whether you were going to find the next floor turd. It was a big mystery basically the whole time I was there.”
“Our managers would bring it up at stand-ups to see if anyone had any information. They also threatened to go nuclear and install cameras in the bathroom, but it didn’t happen while I was there. I ended up finding a new job before the mystery floor pooper was found. The job was shitty, even though this is where I had dreamt of working as early as my first year of high school.”
—juggernot325
18. “I worked at a local credit union, and the teller supervisor was a nice, unassuming, little old lady. She was kind to me when half the tellers weren’t. Come in one day, and she wasn’t there. She’d stolen half a million dollars over the years.”
—Sudden-Chicken3499
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19. “At my company, someone was hosting a customer at an NFL game, which was nothing out of the ordinary. Turns out they booked a suite, and it was mostly non-customers attending. —like their friends and some coworkers. They racked up a $50k bill and expensed it. Finance flagged it, and there was an investigation. Two people got fired.”
—OnTheEveOfWar
20. “Somebody printed out everyone’s paychecks and just let them in the printer for the next person to see. Oh, damn. What a funny day.”
—uasdfnjd
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21. “I was browsing Craigslist, looking for furniture for a new place I had. I see a picture of a tennis racquet for sale, and the floor looks VERY similar to the floor at the tennis club I worked at. I create a fake email account and send an email expressing interest, and the response comes from one of my staff members. It was a small tennis club and the owner had a bad habit of just giving away our merchandise so it took a bit to track that anything was actually missing. The staff member had been swiping racquets and selling them on Craigslist for months, completely unnoticed.”
—hilhilbean
22. “Someone was regularly smearing shit on the toilet cubicle walls. We had a box in each cubicle to hold spare toilet paper, and they shat in it. They continue to block the toilets regularly with, quote, ‘an obscene amount of toilet paper,’ and then shit on top of the paper. This happens in the women’s cubicle. They have still not been caught. When the reception sends a company email asking someone to stop doing this, it happens more often.”
—kfc4life
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23. “I had a manager once that got fired due to a sex, drug, and embezzlement scandal. He was married and sleeping with an employee, had a massive bag of unmarked pills in his desk, and had stolen around $100k by claiming his wife was an employee doing courier work when she wasn’t. This all came to light during the Christmas party.”
—velvet8smiles
24. And: “HR scheduled a ‘mandatory wellness meeting,’ and that’s how we found out half the department was being laid off.”
—Hot-Mouse-2077
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