46 Jaw-Dropping Workplace Meltdowns That’ll Make You Question If Your Coworkers Are the Real Challenge
After pulling and suspending about five drivers for being over the drink-drive limit, the management team made us stop testing drivers as they were more worried about being short staffed than they were about people driving over the limit.
I had a work colleague who volunteered with special needs kids in his spare time. One summer he went and volunteered for “Spesh fest” which was a weekend camp with medals handed out.
He bought one back and gave it to me as a joke, I laughed, put it in my desk and went back to work…. 15 minutes later I was called in to a HR meeting as someone reported my colleague on my behalf.
Two of the biggest contributors to drama are gossip and negative talk. You have to stop venting at work. Save it for when you clock out.
“While there are undoubtedly days where an employee may annoy you or something isn’t done correctly, avoid taking those feelings out on people in the workplace or venting about it to other members of your team. Even if you deem someone trustworthy and see them as a confidant, they likely have someone of their own they share everything with in confidence. The chain goes on, and this is how rumors get started.”
Worked in a chain family restaurant. It was a Sunday lunchtime and the local football team had a 3pm kick off so we were busy. I was running table ordered drinks from the bar and we had ran out of orange fruit shoots and I needed at least one on all the orders waiting… So shouted the bar supervisor as normally only supervisors or managers were allowed in the cellar but he was busy with some angry customers so I went in the cellar, the fruit shoots were usually on a shelf near the door but they werent so I had to go further in and as I found the fruit shoots I could see a foot sticking out near one of the barrels.
Curiousity got the better of me and I peaked over and saw the shift manager with one of the new waitresses and they were obviously being intimate.
Anyways I got the fruit shoots and went back. A few moments later I had to go in the kitchen to check an order and I realised that the new waitress was engaged to one of the boys in the kitchen and she was picking up shifts to help save towards their wedding…
I told a couple people and nobody believed me apart from another shift manager and she only believed me because she had noticed him always asking that waitress first to cover any shifts if someone was off but it wasn’t enough evidence…
Took a good 3 months before someone else caught them sneaking around in the cellar. That someone was the area manager. We had an emergency team meeting and both of them got sacked.
We had a phantom bread puncher. One of my colleagues would bring in a loaf of bread each week to make his sandwiches but kept finding it all squished up in the bag. Went on for ages, everyone making jokes about whoever it was beating up the bread.
Sandwich guy didn’t get on with one of his colleagues. No one was wrong or right, they just had a clash of personalities. Turned out her son who worked in another department would smash the bread everytime he was alone in the kitchen to do a tea round. It all came out literally the day before the office got closed for covid lockdown. Obviously at that point management had bigger priorities and as far as I’m aware nothing ever came from it.
A girl used to go around offering people a cake she had made. They weren’t very appealing and most people took one to be nice…she then asked for money.
Was it for charity? Oh no she seemed to think she could make money off people in the office. HR got involved and told her that she couldn’t do it for health and safety reasons, I assume rather then telling her she was socially inept.
But the easiest way to avoid workplace drama is the simplest: simply stop engaging with it.
“Don’t discuss other employees with their peers, don’t perpetuate rumors in the office and if someone is complaining, develop an escape excuse you use to get back to work, such as ‘Sorry, I’m on a deadline.’ Encourage employees to avoid this engagement as well, so everyone understands that gossip and venting are not tolerated in this workplace,” Indeed suggests.
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