Biggest scandal in your workplace (Mod Note in OP)

_Brian

I was on contract maintenance in a company who were in a major expansion phase with lots of building going on.
One of the maintenance lads refurbished a house out of it. He was one of a few authorised to get stuff at local builder providers. He would just get his own stuff and sign it down to the company. Maybe €150k worth of goods over 12 months before being caught he was just let go as they didn’t want a fuss in front of US auditors.

Another place and a lad was caught in the training lab browsing what i heard was underage porn, he was given choice of immediate resignation or guards, he was gone within 15 minutes. I know a separate complaint was made to the guards regarding the incident but nothing came of it. Large blue chip multinational and they just buried it.

Lots of bed hopping between supervisors and employees.

Fight broke out At Christmas party one night and a mad punch thrown, guy ducked but the lady behind who was 7 months pregnant and trying to calm things down wasn’t so agile and ended up in er with a badly smashed nose.

Hector Savage

_Brian wrote: »

I was on contract maintenance in a company who were in a major expansion phase with lots of building going on.
One of the maintenance lads refurbished a house out of it. He was one of a few authorised to get stuff at local builder providers. He would just get his own stuff and sign it down to the company. Maybe €150k worth of goods over 12 months before being caught he was just let go as they didn’t want a fuss in front of US auditors.

Another place and a lad was caught in the training lab browsing what i heard was underage porn, he was given choice of immediate resignation or guards, he was gone within 15 minutes. I know a separate complaint was made to the guards regarding the incident but nothing came of it. Large blue chip multinational and they just buried it.

Lots of bed hopping between supervisors and employees.

Fight broke out At Christmas party one night and a mad punch thrown, guy ducked but the lady behind who was 7 months pregnant and trying to calm things down wasn’t so agile and ended up in er with a badly smashed nose.

Jesus!
I hope she was ok !

Christmas parties at companies are just sh*te, I have avoided the last couple, think I will need to turn up at this years one tho ...

Odelay

I’d say a major discouraging factor for promotion is that you may then “have” to attend Christmas parties.

pinkyeye

I once negotiated a "package" to leave a firm I hated due to an absolute cnut of boss bullying me.

The day I was leaving everyone was playing nice and the boss invited us all out to lunch to say "goodbye" to me.


I text my sister saying "jesus Christ now we're going for lunch, how much longer do I have to put up with this ****". Realised two minutes later I'd sent the text to the cnut and not my sister.


Quickly got my cheque and left. :D:D

fishfoodie

pinkyeye wrote: »

I once negotiated a "package" to leave a firm I hated due to an absolute cnut of boss bullying me.

The day I was leaving everyone was playing nice and the boss invited us all out to lunch to say "goodbye" to me.


I text my sister saying "jesus Christ now we're going for lunch, how much longer do I have to put up with this ****". Realised two minutes later I'd sent the text to the cnut and not my sister.


Quickly got my cheque and left. :D:D

One of my plans, if I won that lotto top prize, was to not quit my job immediately, but to be a vindictive git, & burn all those bridges that other people who left couldn't afford to; because I had 20 years of dirt I could dredge up

Tragically; I left that job a couple of years ago, & now I'm in a different company, & my Boss & co-workers are dead sound, & my dirt file is blank :mad:

nthclare

pinkyeye wrote: »

I once negotiated a "package" to leave a firm I hated due to an absolute cnut of boss bullying me.

The day I was leaving everyone was playing nice and the boss invited us all out to lunch to say "goodbye" to me.


I text my sister saying "jesus Christ now we're going for lunch, how much longer do I have to put up with this ****". Realised two minutes later I'd sent the text to the cnut and not my sister.


Quickly got my cheque and left. :D:D

Brilliant I love it, speaking your mind:)

Some people on boards will give you cyber slap's for that...

Usually ass lickers or supervisors

Fck em he was a prick....

scudzilla

until last year i worked for one of the main tech companies, around 3yrs ago, in 1 of the micro kitchens, it was found that someone had taken a dump in the coffee beans, found out later it was a disgruntled engineer who was leaving. Was totally kept hush hush

Never figured out though if he put it in there or climbed up and dropped it straight in

Tea Shock

HR Manager was shagging the MD....became very obvious on one particular trip to the US offices

Said HR manager took accelerated progress through the ranks at the same time

Not sure how widespread it’s known....I’ve never told anyone but I’m not the only one who knows.

AlphabetCards

Shagging up the ranks is probably one of the benefits of being a wage slave, sure why is it a bad thing? We hardly live in a meritocracy.

Dr. Bre

I must have worked in boring work places - never heard of any shagging

Hector Savage

fishfoodie wrote: »

One of my plans, if I won that lotto top prize, was to not quit my job immediately, but to be a vindictive git, & burn all those bridges that other people who left couldn't afford to; because I had 20 years of dirt I could dredge up

Tragically; I left that job a couple of years ago, & now I'm in a different company, & my Boss & co-workers are dead sound, & my dirt file is blank :mad:

I used to work in a job I HATED, for an utter c*nt of a boss, and that was one of my fantasies, if I won the lotto to hang around, and just take the piss till I got fired.

Gannicus

Dr. Bre wrote: »

I must have worked in boring work places - never heard of any shagging

Eagerly awaiting the delivery of My Beats by Bre


The amount of it thats gone, and possibly still goes on on in one place I worked was soo much that it stopped even being scandal and became an inalienable part of your employment contract.

Earthhorse

Dr. Bre wrote: »

I must have worked in boring work places - never heard of any shagging

Or else you're unaware of it. I know I have been at times.

Tea Shock

AlphabetCards wrote: »

Shagging up the ranks is probably one of the benefits of being a wage slave, sure why is it a bad thing? We hardly live in a meritocracy.

It's kinda a bad thing when they're both married to other people!

And also when someone totally paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake gets a top position!

Hotblack Desiato

"top position" might be an unfortunate phrase there

Plopsu

JupiterKid wrote: »

A colleague getting arrested for child pornography on both his home computer and his work PC in the early 2000s. I knew him to see but not personally. It was a big organisation and it was the talk of the staff canteen for weeks afterwards.

He was suspended on pay as the Gardai investigation was ongoing and then fired when convicted of the offense. There was a major change in policy on internet use at work after that case.

Wasn't a computer company by any chance?

garbanzo

I worked in a very well known Dublin pub in the city centre as a lounge boy in my student days back the mid-1980s. A new lad started one evening and he went about his business taking orders, clearing up etc. Seemed like a nice fellah.

Two lads in the lounge ordered 2 pints of lager from him. He got them from the bar and brought their drinks down. The guy paid him with a IR£50 note. Now, this is circa 1985 and that’s a hell of a lot of money. The lad took the cash, went and got his coat and legged it out the back door with the note in his hand. It was hysterical. The customer was sitting there getting edgier and edgier waiting for his change. It never came.

The bar manager (an odious git) went mad and all hell broke loose. The customer was eventually given his money back, minus the cost of the two pints. It was bizarre.

Yer man had some stones on him to do that. The phantom lounge boy, he was never seen again....

Dr. Bre

The phantom lounge boy - brilliant !

AlphabetCards

Tea Shock wrote: »

It's kinda a bad thing when they're both married to other people!

And also when someone totally paralyzed by the fear of making a mistake gets a top position!

Hiyoooo

Yeah well the married thing is a personal quandry. I'm unlikely to shag my way to the top given I am spoken for and happy, but I wouldn't begrudge it happening. It is a **** fact of life!

evil_seed

The mentions of shagging brought back an old memory.

Back in my first job, I came into work extremely early one morning. I couldn't sleep and thought f*ckit, I'll go in and get an early start and then I'll leave early too. When I was walking through the office (large open plan, good few meeting rooms etc) to get to my desk, I had to go by one of these meeting rooms. 2 people in the office had got in earlier than me. One of them was the site director and he was hammering into one of the office hotties. Both married to other people, but eventually separated and ended u with each other. Pretty sure they never saw me, and this is the 1st time I've actually let anyone else know I saw this.

partyguinness

evil_seed wrote: »

The mentions of shagging brought back an old memory.

Back in my first job, I came into work extremely early one morning. I couldn't sleep and thought f*ckit, I'll go in and get an early start and then I'll leave early too. When I was walking through the office (large open plan, good few meeting rooms etc) to get to my desk, I had to go by one of these meeting rooms. 2 people in the office had got in earlier than me. One of them was the site director and he was hammering into one of the office hotties. Both married to other people, but eventually separated and ended u with each other. Pretty sure they never saw me, and this is the 1st time I've actually let anyone else know I saw this.

and you did not use this to your advantage because...

Dr. Bre

evil_seed wrote: »

The mentions of shagging brought back an old memory.

Back in my first job, I came into work extremely early one morning. I couldn't sleep and thought f*ckit, I'll go in and get an early start and then I'll leave early too. When I was walking through the office (large open plan, good few meeting rooms etc) to get to my desk, I had to go by one of these meeting rooms. 2 people in the office had got in earlier than me. One of them was the site director and he was hammering into one of the office hotties. Both married to other people, but eventually separated and ended u with each other. Pretty sure they never saw me, and this is the 1st time I've actually let anyone else know I saw this.

The early shift..

evil_seed

partyguinness wrote: »

and you did not use this to your advantage because...

I’m not a cun t

D3V!L

evil_seed wrote: »

I’m not a cun t

User name says otherwise

Come to the dark side, we have cookies.

kildare lad

Not so much a scandal but I was down the doctors last week and there was a builder down there that my boss done a bit of work for in the early 2000's . I asked him how was life , he replied not good . He told me that he renovated a pub for a fella in the 90's and done the job for cash. A couple of years after that CAB investigated the pub owner and cheques he gave to the builder where traced to him . He was told to meet the tax man . He said after about 2 years and a few meetings , he was told he owed them 140,000 euro. They went through everything he said. This was during the height of the recession and he said it nearly killed him. I felt sorry for him as he want a big builder and that was a lot of money for him , he'd always pay you and never tried to ride you as some other builders would. That ended his retirement and he's back working now at 70 years of age .

facehugger99

kildare lad wrote: »

Not so much a scandal but I was down the doctors last week and there was a builder down there that my boss done a bit of work for in the early 2000's . I asked him how was life , he replied not good . He told me that he renovated a pub for a fella in the 90's and done the job for cash. A couple of years after that CAB investigated the pub owner and cheques he gave to the builder where traced to him . He was told to meet the tax man . He said after about 2 years and a few meetings , he was told he owed them 140,000 euro. They went through everything he said. This was during the height of the recession and he said it nearly killed him. I felt sorry for him as he want a big builder and that was a lot of money for him , he'd always pay you and never tried to ride you as some other builders would. That ended his retirement and he's back working now at 70 years of age .

It's the opposite of a scandal when someone who's been fiddling their tax is caught.

People who shirk paying their fair share leave a bigger tab for the rest of us to pick up.

Delighted he was caught.

Lollipops23

kildare lad wrote: »

Not so much a scandal but I was down the doctors last week and there was a builder down there that my boss done a bit of work for in the early 2000's . I asked him how was life , he replied not good . He told me that he renovated a pub for a fella in the 90's and done the job for cash. A couple of years after that CAB investigated the pub owner and cheques he gave to the builder where traced to him . He was told to meet the tax man . He said after about 2 years and a few meetings , he was told he owed them 140,000 euro. They went through everything he said. This was during the height of the recession and he said it nearly killed him. I felt sorry for him as he want a big builder and that was a lot of money for him , he'd always pay you and never tried to ride you as some other builders would. That ended his retirement and he's back working now at 70 years of age .

Surely if he'd paid his tax originally he wouldn't be in this mess?

fryup

partyguinness wrote: »

and you did not use this to your advantage because...

evil_seed wrote: »

I’m not a cun t

maybe so, but you could have got a substantial pay rise for keeping schtum

Paddy Cow

kildare lad wrote: »

Not so much a scandal but I was down the doctors last week and there was a builder down there that my boss done a bit of work for in the early 2000's . I asked him how was life , he replied not good . He told me that he renovated a pub for a fella in the 90's and done the job for cash. A couple of years after that CAB investigated the pub owner and cheques he gave to the builder where traced to him . He was told to meet the tax man . He said after about 2 years and a few meetings , he was told he owed them 140,000 euro. They went through everything he said. This was during the height of the recession and he said it nearly killed him. I felt sorry for him as he want a big builder and that was a lot of money for him , he'd always pay you and never tried to ride you as some other builders would. That ended his retirement and he's back working now at 70 years of age .

That was his mistake - if you're going to do a job for cash, never accept cheques.

Wtf ?

I would love to see a post from an Architect's office near Baggot St.......