craziest work scandal
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Anonymous
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There was the guy who didn’t have to show up for his job at EPA for years because he convinced them that he was working for the CIA. He even got $500,000 in retention bonuses. They paid for his parking space because he claimed he contracted malaria while in Viet Nam (he did not and was not). He also billed hundreds of thousands for travel. He only got caught because he threw a lavish retirement party and someone noticed that he was still on the payroll afterward.
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/former-epa-staffer-pleads-guilty-in-900000-theft-097527?_amp=true |
Anonymous
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We read Ask A Manager too, OP.
https://www.askamanager.org/category/mortification |
Anonymous
| UCLA employee got arrested while I was an intern in the counseling office for selling a piece of art they stole from there: https://www.lapdonline.org/actual-art-theft/hidden-treasure-in-plain-sight/ |
Anonymous
I came on to say the exact same thing!! If this was in Philly maybe we worked at the same company. If not it is even worse that this has happened at multiple companies! |
Anonymous
| Married resident physician had an affair with a married nurse. When the resident was on call, he and the nurse would have sex in the on call room. This all came out when the nurse’s scorned husband sent a mass email to the entire department the resident worked in. Resident got in trouble, his wife found out and divorced him, nurse stayed married to her husband. |
Anonymous
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The IRS attorney and Georgetown law professor who was selling meth?
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/irs_lawyer_who_is_an_adjunct_georgetown_law_prof_in_charged_in_alleged_meth |
Anonymous
| I once took a few extra paper clips home from the office supply cabinet |
Anonymous
Wow I hope someone has an update on this guy. He's probably out of prison, on to some other scam, and still collecting his EPA retirement! |
Anonymous
| Office manager embezzled huge amounts of money from a small think tank. She had threatened the IT person and the mailroom staff in order to cover her crimes. When her supervisor found out about the theft, he committed suicide in his office. |
Anonymous
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Boss downloaded so much porn that it overwhelmed the company’s servers. We kept having these big system shutdowns and everyone just thought it was some computer thing we didn’t understand. Then I went out one night with the IT guys, they got drunk and spilled the beans.
Boss was a very staid family man and deacon in his church. |
Anonymous
OMG disgusting. And of course, being a fed, can't be fired. |
Anonymous
So, in both cases these were in law firms??? |
Anonymous
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This one is is pretty recent - a result of the online only remote work and shortage of professionals, especially in IT at my company!
My company hires a lot of contractors - most as consultants through a hiring firm but lately a lot more direct as “contract to hire”. We are organized by function, and people from different functions are put on a project team. So my team has one from each function - developers, engineers, systems analysts, UX, business analyst, etc. There was a developer hired and put on my project team last year whose status icon was always “away from desk”; he rarely showed up to video meetings calls, or was late, never got his tasks done. Had to be micromanaged - as in set up daily checkins to check his progress . He was very personable and told us about his hobbies but talked in circles - using industry terms, not answering the question, or saying nothing short of BS! He was full of excuses- waiting on someone’s work, analyzing issues, internet or AC problems, sick dog, etc. teammates were covering for him or just being nice or not wanting to “throw him under the bus.” But in a few one-on-ones a few frustrated people hinted to the issues. After 4 months, he was just gone. We got a one-day notice! I learned later, that HR found out he had 2 jobs. Full time six-figure paying jobs at 2 different companies that he was juggling Mon - Fri. There was a long investigation, paper trail, time stamps, tracking on his company laptop, etc. We were so low on staff that I’m not sure it would’ve been an issue, but he wasn’t performing this one job well. With the overhead the job really can be done in 4 hours per day - our developers only bill 6 productive hours, and their work is self-managed. I’m a business analyst and I get by with 3-4 hours of real work on a busy day, and the rest I’m chilling  didn’t think to get another job!
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Anonymous
How much toilet paper? Like a roll at a time or was she directing interns to load up her car with family packs? Did the pandemic toilet paper shortage have anything to do with her getting caught? |
Anonymous