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Biggest scandal in your workplace (Mod Note in OP)

mr_fegelien

What was the biggest scandal ever in your workplace?

Don't have any but during my moms teaching days, almost all the foreign white teachers teaching Maths and English in Tanzania had fake degrees, the college just assumed cause they spoke English and where white they were qualified. Many students failed until they were asked to leave.

Mod - By all means share your anecdotes and stories.

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Mango Joe

mlem123 wrote: »

Not mine, but a friend I worked with used to work in a Tech company in the Shtates, and the morning after a work party she walked into the toilet and here were lines of Coke on the cistern/counter and the guy had been using his own ID card to cut it and got so wasted he left it there along with his credit card.. he was fired :P

El Tarangu wrote: »

A real team-player (and indeed one interested in making economies) would have snorted the evidence and handed the cards back to the colleague...

Hmmmm.....I presume she had walked into the mens toilets for the coke-fuelled ride.....???

partyguinness

Our office got raided twice by CAB in a few months about 15 years ago as part of any investigation into illegal landing of fish. I worked in a coastal town.

Waste of time. We provided professional services to the fish processors which had eff all to do with fish quotas.

mlem123

El Tarangu wrote: »

A real team-player (and indeed one interested in making economies) would have snorted the evidence and handed the cards back to the colleague...

From what she said he was a d*** to work with so she just did nothing to it and decided to let someone else decide. Unluckily for him the next person to see it was a manager...

partyguinness

In the 80's, we had a teacher for two years who had no teaching qualifications at all. She was well into her 60s at that stage and dead since.

corner of hells

enricoh wrote: »

A mate of mines oul boy was in the cops.
His oul boy kept plaguing him to admit he smoked weed, be man enough to admit it etc etc.
Worn down by him he admitted he did- to which his oul boy responds by pulling a couple of 9 bars out of the attic n asks him to shift them selling to his mates! Which he did!
An inspirational father figure!

A mate of my fathers is in the army , brought home his gun and went out hunting rabbits with it in Stephens Green with it.

mlem123

Mango Joe wrote: »

Hmmmm.....I presume she had walked into the mens toilets for the coke-fuelled ride.....???

Doubtful, as she doesn't swing that way hahaha I don't think the guy was in the right head frame to discern which bathroom was correct

steves2

suicide_circus wrote: »

its rampant in the semi states too

I guess so. It really gets under my skin as I see complete incompetence getting promoted time after time because they're friends with the inner circle.

Your Face

Years ago, I saw the Gardai walk in one door of our warehouse and an African lad run out the loading bay door 2 seconds later.

steves2

I worked in a well known sports shop years and years ago, during my time there they were always going on about jerseys being robbed and security guard doing manual counts of stuff every day etc. After I left I bumped into someone who kept working after I left and they said the security guard was the one caught robbing. He was a fairly good actor.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

A guy who worked for the same company as me in the UK was sacked for looking up porn on his work computer several times during lunch breaks. Our computer usage was very strictly monitored and we all knew that so it really was so so stupid of him. My friend worked in the same office as him and he said to her and others: “I don’t see the problem, I never looked up anything during work hours!”.

RedRochey

Heard a story of a xmas party in a hotel overnight, partners were invited as well, one woman got so drunk she brought a lad back to her hotel room but forgotten her husband was at the party as well, he had gone to bed early but was still awake when the two of them came in

norabattie

StockTwat29 wrote: »

Heard a story of a xmas party in a hotel overnight, partners were invited as well, one woman got so drunk she brought a lad back to her hotel room but forgotten her husband was at the party as well, he had gone to bed early but was still awake when the two of them came in

:eek::D:D:D:D
This is the best!

sportsfan90

Not really a scandal but funny nonetheless.

A new girl started in our office a few years back.

About a month or two later, one fella who had been in the company for a few years handed in his notice.

After he left, the new girl told us that she half new him from before from dating apps. She made the mistake at the time of giving him her snapchat username and then got several unsolicited dick-pics before blocking him. She said she saw his face drop when she was being introduced to everyone on her first day.

In fairness to her she waited until after he left the company to tell anyone. The funny thing is he possibly moved company to avoid any awkwardness or embarrassment, but she probably would have kept the whole thing secret if he had stayed.

Monkey2019

Worked in hotels for years so there were always affairs between managers and staff. Good few managers caught fleeching the tills.

Moved on to the public sector then. One guy invented having a girlfriend and was telling eveyone about their upcoming wedding. He then announced she was expecting, went on some leave, sent in pics of baby that were circulated on our weekly newsletter. A few of his colleagues suspected something was off, google image reversed the pic of the baby and it was clearly robbed off the internet.
He admitted then it was all lies, ended up in pysciatric care.
Came back after a few months and got a promotion!

Stevieluvsye

Monkey2019 wrote: »

Worked in hotels for years so there were always affairs between managers and staff. Good few managers caught fleeching the tills.

Moved on to the public sector then. One guy invented having a girlfriend and was telling eveyone about their upcoming wedding. He then announced she was expecting, went on some leave, sent in pics of baby that were circulated on our weekly newsletter. A few of his colleagues suspected something was off, google image reversed the pic of the baby and it was clearly robbed off the internet.
He admitted then it was all lies, ended up in pysciatric care.
Came back after a few months and got a promotion!

Every office has a Walter, but he's Walter to the max

Ray Palmer

Started in a company and was introduced to a guy and I made a passing remark his name was a superhero alter ego. He looked at me a bit strangely and the manager just said he had never known that. A few days later the guy goes out for lunch leaving his phone, jacket and other usual stuff on desk and doesn't return. People are a bit miffed but assume he will come in the next day.
He doesn't come in the next day so the boss is worried and decides to ring the Gardai and reports him as missing. Gardai ring back an hour later to say he isn't missing. The company write to him and ask him to come in and try and sort out what ever is up. No reply. After about a month they pack up all his stuff and send it to his house with his P45.
I stay working there and about a year later the secretary get a call to talk to the boss from a person with a name very close to a well known sci fi character. She recognized the voice and ask was it comic book guy and he says it is. So he rang to get a reference.
Talking to a guy in a new job some years later and he tells me a story about a guy who worked there doing similar and also named after a comic character. He describes the same guy.
Now just to say this was before the "Catch me if you can " film but he must have read the book.

Stevieluvsye

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Started in a company and was introduced to a guy and I made a passing remark his name was a superhero alter ego. He looked at me a bit strangely and the manager just said he had never known that. A few days later the guy goes out for lunch leaving his phone, jacket and other usual stuff on desk and doesn't return. People are a bit miffed but assume he will come in the next day.
He doesn't come in the next day so the boss is worried and decides to ring the Gardai and reports him as missing. Gardai ring back an hour later to say he isn't missing. The company write to him and ask him to come in and try and sort out what ever is up. No reply. After about a month they pack up all his stuff and send it to his house with his P45.
I stay working there and about a year later the secretary get a call to talk to the boss from a person with a name very close to a well known sci fi character. She recognized the voice and ask was it comic book guy and he says it is. So he rang to get a reference.
Talking to a guy in a new job some years later and he tells me a story about a guy who worked there doing similar and also named after a comic character. He describes the same guy.
Now just to say this was before the "Catch me if you can " film but he must have read the book.

Seriously?

Not think about next of Kin or calling to his home address?

[Deleted User]

Investigated for trying to makes payments to County Councillors for zoning once. Hadn't done it, but one of the fckers being investigated claimed I had! He had been caught in a sting, and was trying to make some sort of deal. Very luckily I was out of the country when he said he met me, and actually didn't have an interest in the lands he was talking about, he must have been listening to pub talk.
In fairness to the Gardai they were very professional, hadn't jumped to the conclusion he was telling the truth and it was ironed out easily enough.

Ray Palmer

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Seriously?

Not think about next of Kin or calling to his home address?

Had no other contact details other than his home address an hour's drive from work. The guy claimed to be an only child and orphaned at 20. Lots of other odd claims. He literally did go missing so seems reasonable to me.

Tomw86

No so much a scandal but a funny story. Worked in an office and at the a work party before I started one of the lads who was always messy on nights out got messy and wandered off. One of the women in the office spotted him when she was in a taxi on her way home shortly after and said he was paralytic and couldn't talk.

She was married/engaged at the time and lived nearby so took him back to hers where the boyfriend helps him inside to sleep on the couch. This was on a Thursday so up for work on the Friday.

Guy wakes up on the couch and doesn't know where he is. As he is wandering out of the house he swipes an ipod and some money (only a small amount) from the table and heads off in to work as if nothing has happened. Co-worker wakes up later and has to tell him what happened in work, at which point he hands the ipod and money back. I don't know what he was thinking?????

lassykk

evil_seed wrote: »

I worked in one of the big 4, where there was headline news of a top 10 list of the hot chicks in the office being circulated via email. Names of top brass on the email chain. Was still talked about years later. Nothing of note in my new office

I remember this well. We got the list across in the big 4 firm I worked for.

A partners son in our Dublin office apparently destroyed a hotel function room and went skinny dipping in the fountain out the front of the hotel while on induction training. I don't think he was fired

vriesmays

Worked in a Dublin nightclub where the bouncers would let anyone in. One quiet night now deceased Limerick criminal Eddie Ryan came in and sat on a stool eyeballing the Dj for about 20 minutes. The Guards arrived in the next night in disbelief that he paid a visit.

Mad_maxx

corner of hells wrote: »

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Are you Steve Buscemi - Mr pink?

Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.

Only just remembered, that it was a jewlery store, not a bank

[Deleted User]

some of these stories would leave an awful stigma

mr_fegelien

Deleted User wrote: »

some of these stories would leave an awful stigma

stigma??? I find it hard to believe that's the only thing. Some stories here of bosses theiving thousands of euros only to get sacked! lucky bastard gets no guards

Pronto63

corner of hells wrote: »

A mate of my fathers is in the army , brought home his gun and went out hunting rabbits with it in Stephens Green with it.

Bullsh1t of the highest order.

metaoblivia

Once worked for a major retail outlet and had an assistant manager who was completely incompetent, but upper management loved her, so she stayed. One night while she was closing up the store, she put her keys down on table, completely forgot about them and left without locking the store. One of the stock guys swiped the keys and later that night he and some friends walked in and committed the largest robbery in the company's history, completely wiping out the stock room. The assistant manager was fired. I left a month before it all went down, but it put a nice touch of closure on my time there, which was miserable, in part due to having to deal with her.

At another company, the CEO went to Vegas and in true, bad movie form, spent $30k on strippers, drugs and alcohol, and charged it to the company credit card so his wife wouldn't find out. It was fun watching the CFO try to figure out ways he could pay the company back discretely.

corner of hells

Pronto63 wrote: »

Bullsh1t of the highest order.

No , I swear it's true.

Did I tell you I was captain on the Titanic?

blackwhite

evil_seed wrote: »

I worked in one of the big 4, where there was headline news of a top 10 list of the hot chicks in the office being circulated via email. Names of top brass on the email chain. Was still talked about years later. Nothing of note in my new office

Was a manager there at the time - one of the girls on the list was working on an audit for me the day the story broke. Don’t think I’ve had a morning like that since.

To be fair - once the initial shock of seeing her face on the front page of national newspapers wore off she was quite happy with the €€€ that the firm gave her and the others in compensation immediately afterwards. A few grand for being told you’re better looking that your peers - how bad! (Her words, not mine)

I remember the firm being majorly pissed off with INM at the time - story was reported that morning but nobody published the pics. Then the Evening Herald came out that evening with the 10 ladies on the front page - all whilst there was an audit team from the firm out in INM offices

Snotty

I had a summer job years ago with a small drinks manufacturer, kind of a family business where some of the employees had been with them so long they were almost family. Years later I heard one of the main employees, really nice guy who had been working for them for 35 years, got sick with cancer. One of the other guys stepped into his shoes but after a few weeks realised something was very wrong and went to the owner.
He'd do some small delivery's to places and collect payments (usually cheques) at the end of the month, but when he was delivering the customer would always be correcting the documentation he had, he'd have this customer receiving 2 cases a week on average but they'd say they always got more, then sometimes the customer would pay in cash and he'd wonder why they didn't pay with cheque and the answer was always, the previous guy insisted on cash. They estimated he had stolen hundreds of thousands, but seen he was ill and his family were almost like their own family, the bosses just said to forget about it and it was never mentioned again.

Not my work but a relation of my mother's was a Guard in Galway and was caught shagging a married woman in a patrol car by the husband, it had been going on for awhile and this night he followed them, seemingly he did extensive damage to the patrol car and when the senior guards found out they gave this guard the option of retiring right now and no further disciplinary, he obviously took it. Was too large to keep quiet and his lost his wife and family.