craziest work scandal
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Anonymous
You are when you own the company and she's your PA 
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Financial director in a fed agency was having contractors write checks to his personal account. It was discovered when he went on leave and his replacement was asked by a contractor if they should write the check to the substitute's bank account like the Financial Director had them do.
He was being investigated for a while and took a post in Afghanistan while it was in process. His wife was also in Kabul and employed as an eligible family family member doing orientations for newcomers. Well, the financial director flew back to the US for some conference or something and was arrested. His wife was stuck in Kabul and had no dining card or any other privileges. Other foreign service folk gave her money so she could eat. She did an orientation for my group and she was obviously on some medication. It was really unfortunate. I think the guy stole about $10,000--not enough to go to jail for. |
Anonymous
Totally forgot this story until you told this one. Our financial guy overseas skimmed almost $200k. We were in a place where it was a cash economy so he'd take out large amounts of local currency to pay vendors but then tell the vendors he was short a little bit and he'd get them next time. This worked for a good long while until, well, it didn't. The investigation revealed all kinds of insanity - he was scamming local women to the tune of thousands, some American colleagues as well. He was under investigation for mortgage fraud. All this happened while I was on leave, so I come back to work and there was a huge stash of unique liquor and no one would talk about where it was from. After it was all wrapped up I was told that the financial guy, upon realizing he was about to go to jail for a long time, had obtained a firearm and barricaded himself in his local apartment. Security was able to talk him down, disarm him and get him on a plane. The liquor was his personal stash. It was wild. I worked closely with the guy. |
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| I was a young, pregnant researcher and we had a foreign researcher doing an exchange and she was a bit off. Apparently her performance was lacking and my boss per her on notice. She came into our charged office threatening to being a bomb to work. This was post 911 at a government facility. We immediately reported her and yet security still let her in to work the next day... |
Anonymous
Sadly I think we worked with the same young lady if she passed away a couple years later. |
Anonymous
She ran him over with the car because he caught her with her side piece and said he would leave her and take her kids. She did go to jail for attempted manslaughter but her sentence was later reduced. The husband was not hurt too bad but was hospitalized for a short while. |
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| I worked for a small software company that had a female CEO that punched a sales guy in the face during an afternoon argument. The holiday party was crazy too. The company’s employment lawyer got completely drunk and started hitting on a young, fresh out of college woman from the marketing department in front of his pregnant wife. She wasn’t happy! Huge fight. My DH (boyfriend at the time) was shocked but always looked forward to company parties! |
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| married head of org had an affair with a (single) employee, broke it off; she died by suicide, everything came out. was horrendous for all involved, even peripherally. in the wake of all this was clear he had some weird stuff happen at his previous job, which should have been a red flag but wasn't. |
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This is probably my favorite post in a long time. I thought I had dibs on the weird situations but it seems like there are a lot of other places that are dysfunctional.
At one hospital I worked at we had to make a lot of noise going in the stairwells because doctors and nurses would have sex in the stairwells. One doctor got caught and his wife drove his jaguar into their pool. One doctor got mad in the operating room and would throw things. Finally he threw a bloody instrument so we reported him to the Chief of Staff and began the discipline process. He had his privilege's taken away and had to go to anger management before he could come back to work. That made him more angry but he had to do it or he would not have gotten his privileges back. Oh, and he had to write a letter of apology to the nurse and replace the instrument. Had a doctor one time that brought an eye/cornea implant that he wanted to trial on his patient without approval. He had it in his pocket to get it sterilized the day before the case. He told me he was going to use it any how and I told him I would have him arrested and I would be in the operating room the next day to watch his procedure. I could go on and on with the government ones. But the story is always the same where they they they can get away with swindling the government or tax payers, until they can't! |
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| I worked for a small govt contractor. A few of our tech guys were on travel and had taken the company van. They came back and the top was all smashed in, and they had some crazy story about how something fell on it. Turns out they got drunk and drove it back to the hotel, only to forget that it was too tall to fit in the parking garage. I’m hazy on the details, but I think one of them came forward and we ended up obtaining the security camera footage. |
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#Metoo, though it's so ubiquitous it hardly qualifies as crazy.
He had multiple victims (as they always do) and was eventually fired, though not until the media started investigating. |
Anonymous
| In a previous life I was a teacher and one of the assistant principals at the middle school I taught at was found out to be stealing kids' stimulant meds from the nurse's office... |
Anonymous
| My boss hit one of my coworkers with his car- broke her pelvis. When she was at the hospital it was discovered she had been exposed to rabies and she had to get the rabies vaccine. Then our boss made us run a 5K to fund rabies research and puked during the run because he ate too much fettuccine Alfredo. |
Anonymous
OMG. I think we worked at the same place! Was it a paper company? |
Anonymous
He’s been out for years (since 2016). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Beale I work in that office-it was SO juicy when it was all happening. The HR guy that flagged it was one of my neighbors. |