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Anonymous wrote: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

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!

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

OMG. I think we worked at the same place! Was it a paper company?

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.

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...

#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.

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.

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!

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.

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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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder worked at United Health Care in Plano, TX. A husband of a woman there thought she was cheating and came to work and shot her. Later down the years, I had a direct coworker who was sleeping with a guy in another department while her husband was around the corner in the next department. Super stressful as the guys would often just miss each other. Well, it all came to a head. My best friends at work and I returned from lunch to find the parking lot filled with cop cars and ambulances. The secret was out, the coworker got mad and she got in her car and ran her husband over with the car. I really cannot believe it. She did not kill him but got a divorce and is not with either of them now. They had 3 daughters at the time and the AP guy was one of the kids' coaches and had a family of 5 too. Yuck!!

I find it funny you only point out she got a divorce. Did she go to jail for attempted manslaughter or not?

And why run over the husband? He seems like a victim! How hurt was he?

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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Anonymous wrote:More sad than scandalous: We had a guy -smart and personable -who apparently got addicted to drugs. Meth maybe. His behavior became more and more extreme over the course of a few years, missing work, sleeping on the floor under his desk, skulking around the office stairwells, saying crazy things. His manager tried to help, but ultimately took steps to fire him. Before he could, he OD'd and died.

We have cubicles, so when my coworker slept on her floor it was obvious and weird to everyone walking by. There were multiple car accidents, seizures she said her doctors said were just a mystery. She slurred her words. Said weird inappropriate things to clients. Eventually she was let go.

She was a good person, and actually one of the nicest people to work with in a toxic environment.

But yeah, your description of sleeping under the desk reminded me of her.

Sadly I think we worked with the same young lady if she passed away a couple years later.

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 wrote: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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:My old boss has a run of terrible assistants, but the worst just didn't book the return flights for him and his family home from their summer vacation in Italy. When he called to use miles to come back he found out she had drained his millage account.

Same assistant also used to purchase visa gift cards at Safeway with the company credit card.

Are you supposed to use your work assistant to book non-work-related travel?

You are when you own the company and she's your PA