craziest work scandal
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Anonymous
There was a guy running a wine farm while clocked in at the FBI…so no not that unbelievable. Men get away with everything. https://www.yahoo.com/now/ex-fbi-official-accused-claiming-233635926.html |
Anonymous
I'm the pp. I didn't mean to imply I don't believe the story. I do but how the heck did this happen? I don't get it. |
Anonymous
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Young man at my firm was a bit of an awkward, unremarkable, social recluse, very skittish and didn’t like to make eye contact. Small guy who looked very young for his age, who barely opened his mouth, the kind of person who flew so far under the radar you could easily forget he was there.
One day the FBI comes into the office and seize his work computer. Apparently he had been busted in a child porn case. The crazy thing is he’d been M.I.A./under arrest for about 3 weeks and no one from H.R. or even his direct supervisor has even noticed. Total surprise when the law came knocking. |
Anonymous
I’d question how a direct supervisor didn’t notice an employee missing for three weeks. |
Anonymous
| End of tax season parties - A staffer had to be taken out on stretcher by ambulance to hospital for drinking too much. Drunk partner got thrown out of the bar for going into women’s bathroom. Many staff members came down with nasty flu for sharing shots (before covid). Hook ups left and right. Crazy accountants. |
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Someone at a firm I used to work at would bill time to going to conferences and working on memos and such but actually he was having sex with another associate he met up with. He billed a lot and ultimately made partner and moved to a different state's office.
One of the important partners at the firm slept with and/or possibly raped a female associate in his group (there was a power imbalance). She was already the girlfriend of another partner at the firm, who later left the firm altogether. She wound up making partner and the important lawyer went on to start another important firm. The whole thing was nutso. Meanwhile there were old male attorneys still at the firm who were harassing female associates left and right. It was a crazy time. I always wondered whether I would have been more successful if I'd gone to a different firm or worked in a different group underneath attorneys who weren't so weirdly discriminatory, but this was 20 years ago and more like the Wild West than things are today, I hope. I'm sure I didn't even hear about the half of it. |
Anonymous
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I worked with this guy when this all went down. We all suspected something shady was going on but the upper management was bought into his BS.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fake-cia-spy-garrison-courtney-fooled-everyone-and-swindled-millions |
Anonymous
| Many years ago I worked at a big ad agency and a top creative guy would tell female account people that if they wanted good advertising they needed to have sex with him. I was married and told him to f— off and I left a few months later. Years later he got fired. |
Anonymous
One of the articles I read mentions that he was hired to EPA by a close friend. At the time, he had zero experience in environmental law, which was odd. By all accounts, he did a good job on his first assignment (negotiating the Clean Air Act Amendments). It sounds like it was a combo of having a friend in Admin who would cover for him and having performed well when he was first hired, so no one questioned him after a while. It doesn't sound like the friend was prosecuted, but there is something about that whole set up that was fishy. |
Anonymous
| One of our lab techs got drunk and attacked a clown at a family work party. No more alcohol at work after that… |
Anonymous
Something similar happened to my brother. A coworker’s husband attacked him in the office lobby and hit him so badly he needed surgery. Turns out the woman wanted a divorce and there were clearly some abuse/mental health struggles. Her husband started following her and became convinced there was another man, and honed in on my brother when he saw them walking out of work together one day. My brother had to go on short term disability. He wasn’t allowed to speak to his coworker due to the active court proceedings and HR didn’t really know what to do. I think she ended up leaving that job soon after. |
Anonymous
Only an adjunct prof, but yeah. |
Anonymous
Agree. Had a fed employee who was supposedly teleworking but could never be reached. He was part of the org's "good ole boy" club. Left the DC area to buy a farm but was supposedly still teleworking every day. He did absolutely nothing; had no projects assigned. Finally he even stopped calling in for meetings. When we finally reached him one day he was actually angry and defiant because we interrupted him taking care of his farm animals. Next thing we knew, good ole boys system kicked in and we were getting reprimanded for bothering him! |
Anonymous
Can you provide some juicy gossip?  Was this out of Charlottesville, and was the VP from the D.C. area? lol.
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