46 Jaw-Dropping Workplace Meltdowns That’ll Make You Question If Your Coworkers Are the Real Challenge
We got 2 new managers that nobody liked so one day I got told “don’t eat the cake it the staffroom” turns out someone had baked it with laxatives inside intending on giving it to the managers but neither of them were in that day so they just left the cake in the staffroom for anyone to eat. The person who did this told there friends not to eat it and eventually word just got around and that person was promptly fired the same day. Thankfully no one ate the cake!
Who are the most toxic and drama-prone colleagues that you have the ‘pleasure’ of working alongside? Do you think there’s any hope for them, or are they a lost cause?
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Liquor store. My very married boss disappeared as soon as I walked in the door. My coworker told me a customer was hitting on her hard and she just followed him home. A few weeks later I saw a used pregnancy test in the bathroom bin. Her husband came in often and none of us could look him in the eye.
Many years ago. A male mid-level sales leader was carrying on an extra-curricular relationship with one of the female administrative staff. His wife came to the office and caused a huge scene. The police were called. The company refused charges against the wife, the husband was fired on the spot, and the female affair partner was “laid off” quite abruptly.
Didn’t witness it, but heard all about it. Partner at a conference, running a session for clients. Has a lapel mic. Proceeds to the bathroom but forgets to turn it off. Entire conference room hears his entire toilet performance al la Leslie Neilson style. Everyone, including the clients, were gossiping about it for months afterwards!!
Guy got promoted and used his position to get with three ladies in the office. All ended up with the same std. He got fired and they got together and sued the company. Not sure how that ended but none of them are with the company anymore.
I worked at Aviva. Someone kept defecating in the middle of the floor in the toilets, then smearing it everywhere. Had a meeting to ask the person to stop or others to dob in if they knew who it was…suddenly no more poocasso.
Thankfully I was never a witness to the aftermath of the art, but I definitely felt for the poor bugger who had to clean it up.
During COVID, the clock in my classroom would disappear most mornings before lessons and the site team would come and pop a new clock on the wall a few times a week.
I shared this classroom with another teacher and he had no idea where the clock was actually going either.
We just assumed they were taking it down to use in the hall for mock exams throughout the term and then site were returning it afterwards.
Things you need in schools often just go missing at random points so we didn’t think too much of it but it was a bit annoying to not have a clock in the room given that students need to know the time in tests.
About halfway through the year, we found out that some boy in Year 10 who had form in our classroom had been stealing all the clocks.
Yes, clocks plural.
He had taken one, gotten away with it and wanted to see if he could take another.
And when no one confronted him, he just kept taking all the replacement clocks from the classroom.
His mum found a hoard of school clocks in a cupboard at home when the school was almost fully online. she phoned in and he had to return everything he took.
Given that schools basically have no money, I was more shocked that we had that many new clocks put in the room and that it wasn’t just the same clock moving around.
There was a charity snack box. Pop, sweets, crisps, etc. the guy who ran it always complained about people using change to pay for it (prices were dumb, like 55p a can of pop, 70p for crisps, 85p for bags of sweets etc) and how he had to change the change at a machine and that took a % of the profit for charity. So someone came in, or stayed late, counted every last penny and swapped it for notes, I assume thinking they were helping.
People after being told off for using the correct change pretty much all swapped to £1 coins or notes but now there was no change. So nobody bought anything for a week or so.
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