Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 12:20     Subject: craziest work scandal
State Farm 1980’s the VP of the east coast at the time slept with everyone he could women were expected to treat him like a king one woman was basically his pimp.


Target corp ugh horrific to women




Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 12:14     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
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!


This story is unbelievable. I do not understand how no one questioned his lack of work, travel, expenses etc for so long. I do not understand.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 09:35     Subject: Re:craziest work scandal
Stop saying "go"
Are you 12??
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2022 07:47     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Wow. Did the boss hit her with his car accidentally?



PP this is from The Office
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2022 23:46     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Wow. Did the boss hit her with his car accidentally?

no, he was being negligent.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2022 12:15     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Wow. Did the boss hit her with his car accidentally?


I think this an an episode of The Office
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2022 11:20     Subject: Re:craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We thought it was strange that the president started sobbing while he was giving the goodbye speech at his VP's going away party. It was also a little strange when he left unexpectedly a few months later.

It all made sense when someone saw them together later. They were both married to other people when they were working together, but now they are married to each other.


CNN?


No; does this mean that the same thing happened in multiple organizations?
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2022 10:57     Subject: craziest work scandal
IT guys snooped on executives emails to get info to negotiate higher salaries. Got fired when discovered. Proceeded to get IT jobs at another company in the same building, so would see them in the elevator regularly. Super awkward.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2022 03:08     Subject: craziest work scandal
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.


Wow. Did the boss hit her with his car accidentally?
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2022 01:19     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote: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!


I know someone with a similar story, except it was a long time employee that wasn't doing anything even when he wasn't on one of multiple FMLA leaves for "mental health reasons." It turned out he was flipping houses and working full time as a realtor (with his name and photo on the real estate firm's web site) in another city. No telling how many cases there have been like this over the last two years.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2022 19:56     Subject: craziest work scandal
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.


Was this in Cincinnati? I worked with someone like this
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2022 19:04     Subject: craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


I know someone who was close to his wife, so I heard that side of the story. She is very accomplished and I’m amazed she maintained a high-flying career while all of this happened.

Amazingly, she knew nothing. She just thought her husband was remote working from their 2nd home on Cape Cod. Apparently all that time he was doing CIA business, he was just puttering around their home on the Cape.

Iirc, they never divorced.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2022 18:05     Subject: Re:craziest work scandal
First was a husband of a co-worker beat up our boss because he was convinced he was sleeping with his wife because she had recently gotten a promotion. Boss was hospitalized. I don’t know if the husband was ever arrested- there was a warrant issued but I never heard anything further. There is no way there was any funny business between the my boss and co-worker. My poor co-worker seemed like an abused women and I regret that I didn’t do more to try help her.

The second was when a co-worker got a bad review and his boss was making the case to terminate him. His performance was notoriously awful and they should have fired him earlier but he has been passed around managers so he managed to hang on way longer than he should have. Right after he received his negative review, he stormed out of the building and could be seen going into our parking garage. His manager came out that evening to find her car badly keyed and windows smashed. HR and his manager scheduled a meeting to terminate him the following day. He showed up for the meeting dressed as a woman (for the first time ever, at least at the office, with full, heavy make up, a wig, heels & evening dress), he was fired then he sent out a farewell email to everyone in our company alluding that he was about to commit suicide. This was years ago and he still regularly posts on social media (in men’s clothing).
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2022 17:48     Subject: Re:craziest work scandal
Anonymous wrote:We thought it was strange that the president started sobbing while he was giving the goodbye speech at his VP's going away party. It was also a little strange when he left unexpectedly a few months later.

It all made sense when someone saw them together later. They were both married to other people when they were working together, but now they are married to each other.


CNN?
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2022 17:45     Subject: Re:craziest work scandal
We thought it was strange that the president started sobbing while he was giving the goodbye speech at his VP's going away party. It was also a little strange when he left unexpectedly a few months later.

It all made sense when someone saw them together later. They were both married to other people when they were working together, but now they are married to each other.