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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.

DO NOT name and shame the companies or places involved.

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Lollipops23

A company I used to work for did a lot of business with Graham O'Dwyer. Met him a handful of times- a more unremarkable man you could not meet.

Gannicus

Lollipops23 wrote: »

A company I used to work for did a lot of business with Graham O'Dwyer. Met him a handful of times- a more unremarkable man you could not meet.

Hardly a scandal.

[Deleted User]

I recall in the naughties in a very large, very high profile tech multinational when the male HR director and female recruiter suddenly disappeared. The word on the street was that he had approved her expense claim for a visit to Victoria's Secrets on their recent work trip to the States.

nthclare

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I recall in the naughties in a very large, very high profile tech multinational when the male HR director and female recruiter suddenly disappeared. The word on the street was that he had approved her expense claim for a visit to Victoria's Secrets on their recent work trip to the States.

What a cuck

machaseh

In my previous callcenter company, a manager shagged the HR lady IN THE CAR PARK OF THE OFFICE BUILDING. Many people heard/saw it. In addition, said HR lady also bullied a HR lad to such an extent that he left. In the end, the HR lady was fired for her misconduct, but the manager happily continued for years after. All people in question are now gone (as well as myself) from this company though.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Worked in a cafe beside a Dunnes, a lot of the auld ones would stop in for tea after they did their shop. One day saw one of them being led away by the gards shouting and crying. She had apparently only paid for about one in every four trolleys of shopping she'd left the place with. She'd fill it up, go out of the grocery section into clothing, if anyone said anything she'd say oh I'm just grabbing a couple of things in there before I pay, then in the clothing section it'd be oh I paid for this already I'm just having a look here. Proper blue-rinse lovely old granny, and she was paying the odd time so I suppose that took suspicion off.

A new security guard started and would actually ask her to produce a receipt, she pulled the "oh I'm a silly old lady I'm so sorry" routine but he spotted her pattern pretty quickly.

Where I am now, probably the guy who was buying fruit and vegetables from one of the German supermarkets and reselling it at a big mark up, I think misrepresenting it as locally grown etc.

[Deleted User]

jesus i didnt, and i hate to say it, think "spitting" while i was reading that

Sleepy

Samsgirl wrote: »

Carla 4 Garda

Did you work with her or with the Garda who got in hot water for shagging her in/on the squad car?

Sameouldstory

Better to use a new account for this as my scandal involves boards.ie

My company was throwing a big bash but after work hours and basically forced everyone to attend.

So a girl in work posted on boards to find out it it was legal for the company to do this. A few lads in a different department seen this and realised it was our company and signed up to boards pretending to be the CEO giving out to the girl.

Some friend of the CEO seen it and told him. He got the IT lads involved and eventually the profile and post where traced back to the office . They uncovered email chains then and knew who was involved.

4 of them got sacked and some got off with warnings....

J Mysterio

Sounds like a great place to work that. Also, Boards would have had to have provided the info of users? IP and such?

Stevieluvsye

J Mysterio wrote: »

Sounds like a great place to work that. Also, Boards would have had to have provided the info of users? IP and such?

Sardonicat

nthclare wrote: »

I won't name the company but supposedly the companies head office was in South Africa and an Irish subsidiary was based in Ireland and it was up to the Irish side to look after their patch.

Anyhow unbeknownst to the head office in Africa the Irish side of the company had its own club house,bar, snooker hall,soccer pitches, tennis courts and a yacht in the ocean and cruiser on the lake, top end company car's etc

A company director came over to see how it's all working out, lets just say he wasn't happy with the cashflow...

The ostentatious 80's huh

In Ireland? ! I don't think so.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

J Mysterio wrote: »

Sounds like a great place to work that. Also, Boards would have had to have provided the info of users? IP and such?

No way boards.ie would have provided that

I presume he means IT checked their logs on their end to see requests to the boards.ie URL at the time it was posted.

Monkey2019

One hotel I worked in the male general manager (whose was married with 3 kids) was caught riding a male night porter. I worked with this same guy in a different hotel before that and he was caught organising prostitutes for men staying there.

Same place the duty manager (in his late 40s) left his wife & kids and shacked up with an 18 year old waitress.

Last office I worked in one fellow wrote a full book about all the high up managers listing every reason he hated them & really disgusting insults, printed out a copy for everyone working there and left them on each desk.
He did everything he could to get fired but poor f*cker is still there

[Deleted User]

Not in my workplace but in the secondary school I went to. This happened about 8 years after I left.

I think he was a first or second year but he was caught looking up normal porn on his phone one day. He was sent to the principal's office and his phone was confiscated.

That evening he went home, got out and loaded his father's shotgun and you know the rest. All because of how hard the principal and vice principal were on him led him to fear what his parents would do or say.

The principal and vice principal were turned away from the house when they went to pay their condolences and both retired a few weeks afterwards.

Stevieluvsye

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Not in my workplace but in the secondary school I went to. This happened about 8 years after I left.

I think he was a first or second year but he was caught looking up normal porn on his phone one day. He was sent to the principal's office and his phone was confiscated.

That evening he went home, got out and loaded his father's shotgun and you know the rest. All because of how hard the principal and vice principal were on him led him to fear what his parents would do or say.

The principal and vice principal were turned away from the house when they went to pay their condolences and both retired a few weeks afterwards.

Murica?

Hector Savage

Not really a work scandal but a funny thing happened to my brother about 20 years ago.
He was working in IT, working late one night as deadline was next day, anyway their office was out in one of those business estates and at about midnight a nice car pulls into the lot, parks in front of the windows (one way glass).

Guy in a nice suit just takes his dick out and has a **** right there and then in front of the few IT lads working late - who were pissing themselves laughing.

Guy obviously thought no one be around, but jaysus just have a sneaky Tom Hank in your car ffs!!!

[Deleted User]

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Murica?

Tipperary

[Deleted User]

Worked as a contractor in one of the bigger electronics multinationals in Ireland for a while. To say corruption aided by incompetence was rampant at African levels would be an understatement. I mean the company was well known for prosecuting thieves to the full extent of the law, how there wasn't mass arrests for fraud when the whole scandal broke is beyond me.

To give you some background, with some contractors the company paid X amount of money to get the job done, it was then up to the contractor to staff the job with appropriate numbers and arrange for cover if/when needed. Other contractors however were paid a certain hourly rate per person on site. This covered the worker's hourly wage, insurance, etc, and the balance represented the contractor's own profit.

Problem began with the maintenance guys, and just to be clear, these lads were on big bucks from the word go. Electricians, fitters, etc. They started turning up for unrequired overtime on weekends, justifying it if confronted with some fairly spurious excuses like "such and such a machine has to be stripped and I can only do it when production is stopped". They were clocking in at 8AM, and then promptly hitting the golf course, the pub, going back to bed, or off doing private nixers like re-wiring houses and the like. They'd be back 10 or 12 hours later to clock out again, pocketing double time worth several hundred euros (pounds actually at the time) in the process.

Scandal broke when the facilities manager, a former maintenance contract worker himself but by now a direct company employee and department manager, was exposed taking bribes in exchange for awarding contracts. A gig came up to supply fire extinguishers, however the real profit in this case was not in supply but in the regular maintenance and safety checks that have to follow periodically on a long term basis. Some guy offered a quote, facilities manager handed him a piece of paper with his home address on it and says "have a big screen tv and a VCR* delivered to this house and we have a deal".

(*giving away the timeline slightly here!)

In fairness to the guy making the bid, he was having none of it. Maybe he didn't need the money, maybe he didn't like being treated like a stooge, maybe he just thought the facilities manager was a creep, but he blew the whistle on the whole scam. Turns out your man was at it from day one. All the contracts were investigated and a lot of good people lost their jobs through no fault of their own. And I'm not talking about the maintenance crew here who deserved it, I mean all the cleaners and janitors got kicked out, the catering staff in the canteen went, security guards, and so on. New contractors were brought in to replace them but still, it wasn't their fault their employers went down that road in the first place.

Thankfully my own job wasn't affected as it came under the remit of supply chain management and not facilities.

On further investigation it even emerged the facilities manager had been whisking his wife off to New York for weekend shopping trips on the department credit card! No police action taken, I've no idea why, although he voluntarily surrendered his privately owned 4x4 to the company who I believe sold it.

Hector Savage

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Just so we are clear here to all biggin up the bigguns

How fat are we talking here? Washing themselves with a rag on a stick fat?

Nah jaysus I'm not one of those American lads - feeders ?
She was overweight sure, but not morbidly obese, definitely could work on her weight without having to have stomach surgery.

lassykk

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Not in my workplace but in the secondary school I went to. This happened about 8 years after I left.

I think he was a first or second year but he was caught looking up normal porn on his phone one day. He was sent to the principal's office and his phone was confiscated.

That evening he went home, got out and loaded his father's shotgun and you know the rest. All because of how hard the principal and vice principal were on him led him to fear what his parents would do or say.

The principal and vice principal were turned away from the house when they went to pay their condolences and both retired a few weeks afterwards.

This is exceptionally sad

[Deleted User]

lassykk wrote: »

This is exceptionally sad

Yeah, it sure is. The kid was absolutely innocent and just doing what a kid that age does.

ziedth

This was the scandal at the time. A retail company in the south east. Part of the "Big 5" supermarkets at the time. I don't know for sure but I would say the store turned over €1m a week. I say this so you get the idea what kind of money we're talking. There was a management team of maybe a dozen and each has their own code to go into various parts of the building which was logged.

Anyway, One night somebody (or people) goes into the store in the dead of night (Uses a Key for entry) and then moves through the building using each of the dozen managers codes all the way up to the safe and empties it even somehow clearing CCTV footage. To say **** hit the fan is an understatement. Two managers were grilled by the guards and were widely believed to have been those involved, One left within a year but the other was still with the company well over a decade later.

It was completely brushed under the carpet because I would think insurance would never pay out and they didn't want the bad publicity. Not even a word in local papers.

GLaDOS

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/man-had-explosive-device-components-in-college-locker-court-hears-1.2885433

I worked in the same building as the guy, he worked in a spin out company within Maynooth University. Guards had the whole corridor containing their lab cordoned off and everything being carted out. Was a while before we found out what the story was so a fun day of speculation.

One of the technical staff I was friends with said he'd chatted to him a fair bit and your man had been asking him questions about remote control switches :pac:.

Samsgirl

Sleepy wrote: »

Did you work with her or with the Garda who got in hot water for shagging her in/on the squad car?

Same organisation

blackwhite

Samsgirl wrote: »

Same organisation

You work for Pornhub? :pac:

Samsgirl

blackwhite wrote: »

You work for Pornhub? :pac:

Lol....

kingtut

People wank1ng / shagging in the toilets. You hear it all the time

dinorebel

kingtut wrote: »

People wank1ng / shagging in the toilets. You hear it all the time

You work in Coppers?

kingtut

dinorebel wrote: »

You work in Coppers?

Nope pharma