Worst work attitude you've ever witnessed

bear1 · 18-07-2014 11:10AM #1

As I write this now a colleague is packing his belongings after being fired only a few minutes ago.
From what we all know the guy had a serious authority problem.
Emails sent to customers written in the rudest way possible.
Effing and blinding to anyone that annoyed him.
Complained to the staff how our female manager was better off in the kitchen... unfortunately for him this went to the manager.
After a few months of this and many repeated warnings he has now been sacked after he accidentally sent to our main boss a picture of explicit nature.
So AH, what is the worst work attitude you've ever encountered/witnessed? Did it lead to sackings?

freshpopcorn · 18-07-2014 11:17AM

Employees posting on Boards.is at work.
You'll be next.

Going Strong · 18-07-2014 11:19AM

A guy I was contracting with about a dozen years ago in the IT department of a multinational - we shared a cubicle. Came in still off his head on Ecstasy from a weekend of clubbing a few times. Got into a war of words via email with someone in another department and started emailing other people he thought would back him up using all sorts of foul language about the other person. He was caught making personal calls via his desk phone on numerous occasions. The last time being when he was found with his feet on the desk, telling dirty jokes down the phone to a mate of his in London and told the manger who'd caught him in the act to "Eff off, it's a private call."

Officially, he was sent back to the agency that had sent us out there as his role was no longer required rather than actually sacked there and then but he was let go a couple of weeks later by the agency. I got on grand with him but did well out of it as everyone else assumed my life was a misery because of him so I got lots of sympathy and a summer of easy jobs to make up for it.

tritium · 18-07-2014 11:20AM

Fool of an IT guy who was trying to shag his way through the office behind his missus' back while coming in hungover and doing no work. Throw in a temper and manipulative streak. It didn't end too well for him.

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-07-2014 11:21AM

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Taltos · 18-07-2014 11:27AM

Which one to choose from...

Guy with a stash of soft porn in work - pre internet days. I really think he needed some serious medical help with his attitude to women, a stone age man would have more cop on.

Contractor openly browsing porn sites in work, every day pretty much all day. Trying to convince a co-worker to go back to his for some fun with him and the missus.

Tech coming into work when he bothered smashed out of his head on drugs and disappearing for most of his shift - used to sleep in boxes down the back of one of the storerooms. Union place so he was well protected - "sure isn't he having a tough life"

Will leave it there but could go on...

bear1 · 18-07-2014 11:29AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Employees posting on Boards.is at work.
You'll be next.

I'm on my break and I doubt I'm the only one posting on Boards at work

Besides, I need quite a bit of notice.

razorblunt · 18-07-2014 11:39AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Employees posting on Boards.is at work.
You'll be next.

Boards.is?

Is that where we sit around making Palestinean jokes?

Once worked with a guy that would dissappear for close to hour outside his lunchbreak. He was once gone for over 3 hours and came strolling casually back in the door to sit down and continue "working". When pulled up on where he was he said "I met some friends for lunch, it was a long one".

Eventually got rid of him.

Guill · 18-07-2014 11:46AM

Guy in here telling me what to do all day. Pushy and sometimes shouts at me. I mean, I know he owns the place, but who does he think he is???

Falthyron · 18-07-2014 11:49AM

I am all for employee rights, but employer rights really need some improvement. How a person of this nature managed to last that long in a job is unbelievable, but the truth of the matter is: the employer couldn't get rid of him. There are plenty of people I know who should have been fired months, if not years, ago, but they languish on because the employer has so much red tape to get through in order to get rid of them. And then there are those who KNOW how to play the system, and they do it so well.

shane9689 · 18-07-2014 11:50AM

Guill wrote: »

Guy in here telling me what to do all day. Pushy and sometimes shouts at me. I mean, I know he owns the place, but who does he think he is???

you'd swear he thinks he's your boss

gugleguy · 18-07-2014 11:53AM

Weird. Guy I sent a message to very recently on another network, won't name it, would'nt take any calls on the support line we worked on. But his Team Leader knew. He did'nt last much longer in the job.

gramar · 18-07-2014 11:54AM

There were a few fellas here in production that were completely useless.

One used to fall asleep standing up. Some of the machines are dangerous if not used properly and this guy was nodding off while using them. He used to curl up sometimes too in the store for a bit of kip. The boss caught him one day and let a roar at him 'Why the fcuk didn't ye bring a pillow while you were at it!?

Another fella used to come in half cut a couple of times a week. Sometimes with black eyes. He hadn't a clue what he was at half the time and made loads of mistakes a fact not lost on the supervisors. The services of both have since been dispensed with.

Jawgap · 18-07-2014 11:54AM

A few years ago in the company I was working for one of our colleagues 'done good' - he basically landed an impossible project and brought the whole thing to fruition when everyone (including yours truly) said it was impossible.

Anyway, bossman reports the achievement to big bossman who in recognition of this guy's hard work gave him an out of year one off bonus and much upgraded company car!

I'm being honest when I say that off about 50 of us in the office in question 48 (not including the guy himself) were chuffed for him. He was a nice guy, he worked very hard - he'd earned it. He took some of the bonus and brought everyone out for drinks.

A few weeks later his new wheels arrived and this one cnut threw brake fluid over the bonnet!! He was caught on CCTV, dismissed and prosecuted - the only bitter after taste was that he got nearly €20k in a settlement for unfair dismissal because proper procedures had not been followed!

bear1 · 18-07-2014 11:58AM

Jawgap wrote: »

A few years ago in the company I was working for one of our colleagues 'done good' - he basically landed an impossible project and brought the whole thing to fruition when everyone (including yours truly) said it was impossible.

Anyway, bossman reports the achievement to big bossman who in recognition of this guy's hard work gave him an out of year one off bonus and much upgraded company car!

I'm being honest when I say that off about 50 of us in the office in question 48 (not including the guy himself) were chuffed for him. He was a nice guy, he worked very hard - he'd earned it. He took some of the bonus and brought everyone out for drinks.

A few weeks later his new wheels arrived and this one cnut threw brake fluid over the bonnet!! He was caught on CCTV, dismissed and prosecuted - the only bitter after taste was that he got nearly €20k in a settlement for unfair dismissal because proper procedures had not been followed!

What a spiteful piece of sh1t.
To be then awarded 20k...

R.D. aka MR.D · 18-07-2014 11:59AM

Falthyron wrote: »

I am all for employee rights, but employer rights really need some improvement. How a person of this nature managed to last that long in a job is unbelievable, but the truth of the matter is: the employer couldn't get rid of him. There are plenty of people I know who should have been fired months, if not years, ago, but they languish on because the employer has so much red tape to get through in order to get rid of them. And then there are those who KNOW how to play the system, and they do it so well.

I couldn't agree more. I once worked with a girl who was completely incompetent and made everyone's work harder, especially mine. When the top manager tried to pull her up on it she claimed that she was bullying her and the manager had to back off.

It made my life a misery because I had to do the incompetent girl's work and my own.

You should be allowed to tell some one they are crap without them thinking it's 'bullying'. :mad:

18-07-2014 11:59AM

A friend of mine used to work in a big diy shop,
He build a room hidden up high in the warehouse with a bean bag,a bedside locker and a picture on the wall.All stuff taken from the shop floor.
Used to hide out up there for hours.
I think his boss found it one day and went insane but he got away with it!
Ha ha ha

henryporter · 18-07-2014 12:00PM

the Public Service?

FullblownRose · 18-07-2014 12:03PM

Taltos wrote: »

Which one to choose from...

Tech coming into work when he bothered smashed out of his head on drugs and disappearing for most of his shift - used to sleep in boxes down the back of one of the storerooms.

I hope he had access to a bathroom. Geordie from Alan Patridge, Alpha Papa, and the lunchbox, springs to mind!

henryporter · 18-07-2014 12:06PM

R.D. aka MR.D wrote: »

I couldn't agree more. I once worked with a girl who was completely incompetent and made everyone's work harder, especially mine. When the top manager tried to pull her up on it she claimed that she was bullying her and the manager had to back off.

It made my life a misery because I had to do the incompetent girl's work and my own.

You should be allowed to tell some one they are crap without them thinking it's 'bullying'. :mad:

Political correctness taken to it's most absurd - unfortunately in that case it's the manager handing the situation badly rather than the incompetent getting away with it.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 12:14PM

I spent the first 10 years of my working life in Ireland and never saw anyone being sacked or even heard of it!!

Since moving to UK a few years back, I have seen plenty of people unceremoniously sacked on the spot. God help you if you hand your notice in, generally you are frog marched out of the place a few hours later and given pay in lieu. Do not come back. It's like they take it personally.

Sinister Kid · 18-07-2014 12:16PM

Manager lecturing me on hitting sales targets while continuously stealing my sales.... crossing out or throwing away my paperwork & re-writing the sales in his own name. When I tried to speak to him about it he told me that I was disrespecting him and he could have me sacked "like that" and snapped his fingers at me.

The look on his face when I handed in my notice two weeks later was priceless. He kept asking me to reconsider & he would hold off on passing my notice on to the head office until I had a good think about what I was doing!! Life is too short to put up with assholes like that...

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 12:16PM

henryporter wrote: »

Political correctness taken to it's most absurd - unfortunately in that case it's the manager handing the situation badly rather than the incompetent getting away with it.

I have friends in the public service who regularly bitch about absolutely useless colleagues who pride themselves on doing nothing but yet can they get sacked...no why Jose...and they still get their annual pay increases- 'entitlements', pensions and everything else that goes with it....:mad:

Jawgap · 18-07-2014 12:20PM

bear1 wrote: »

What a spiteful piece of sh1t.
To be then awarded 20k...

He was a human turd to begin with......and subsequently he queried why he wasn't invited to the Christmas Party!!

partyguinness wrote: »

I spent the first 10 years of my working life in Ireland and never saw anyone being sacked or even heard of it!!

Since moving to UK a few years back, I have seen plenty of people unceremoniously sacked on the spot. God help you if you hand your notice in, generally you are frog marched out of the place a few hours later and given pay in lieu. Do not come back. It's like they take it personally.

Yeah, worked in the UK and that's how it happened. Handed in my notice and was then walked back to my office where I was given a box and they inventoried everything I took (personal items).

Didn't get paid in lieu, I was sent on garden leave for my notice period with HR checking up on me occasionally. Started the new job, and found out later that my former employers had checked up on me to make sure I wasn't violating the non-compete elements of my severance agreement - it wasn't personal, it was just how business is done.

Anyway, I'd cleared everything I needed from the office before I handed in my notice

Jawgap · 18-07-2014 12:26PM

partyguinness wrote: »

I have friends in the public service who regularly bitch about absolutely useless colleagues who pride themselves on doing nothing but yet can they get sacked...no why Jose...and they still get their annual pay increases- 'entitlements', pensions and everything else that goes with it....:mad:

I work in the Public Service now in Ireland (for another month or so anyway).

Yes you can get sacked - the problem is managers are too lazy to do it.

Pay increases - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - what are they? If I'd even got cost of living over the last few years I'd probably hang on, but it's been all cuts. The contrast becomes even starker when you compare equivalent salaries in private sector firms.

Entitlements - what are they? in contrast to my current job, the one I'm going to comes with a car, health insurance (for the family) and a few other perquisites. And as for the pension, yes it's good, but a fund I'm in from a previous (private) job is better.

partyguinness · 18-07-2014 12:29PM

Jawgap wrote: »

He was a human turd to begin with......and subsequently he queried why he wasn't invited to the Christmas Party!!

Yeah, worked in the UK and that's how it happened. Handed in my notice and was then walked back to my office where I was given a box and they inventoried everything I took (personal items).

Didn't get paid in lieu, I was sent on garden leave for my notice period with HR checking up on me occasionally. Started the new job, and found out later that my former employers had checked up on me to make sure I wasn't violating the non-compete elements of my severance agreement - it wasn't personal, it was just how business is done.

Anyway, I'd cleared everything I needed from the office before I handed in my notice

Yeah, when I came to handing in my notice, I handed notice in and made sure to clear everything beforehand, contacts, personal papers etc. The feckers left me work out my notice period. I had accepted a job from another office down the road (they contacted me) and was looking forward to a 2 month paid break coming up to Christmas...:(

Difference was I was the only person in the company that could do my job so they were stuck with me...

I totally and blatantly violated my Contract- wasnt supposed to work within 2 miles or solicit clients for 3 months...there was angry emails and threats of injunctions of all sorts but just all sabre rattling..I am at it long enough not to get screwed over...:D New employer was delighted with the new clients I brought..

Thargor · 18-07-2014 12:39PM

I haven't done any work in about 2 weeks, split my time between browsing Boards and reading ebooks on my phone in the bathroom.

Going Strong · 18-07-2014 12:41PM

partyguinness wrote: »

I have friends in the public service who regularly bitch about absolutely useless colleagues who pride themselves on doing nothing but yet can they get sacked...no why Jose...and they still get their annual pay increases- 'entitlements', pensions and everything else that goes with it....:mad:

I once shared a house with someone who worked for a government department. He was dead proud of never doing a day's work and would regale myself and the other tenant on how he'd use the internal disciplinary system to tie his managers in knots so that he could carry on doing nothing all day. If his manager tried to get him to do some work he'd report the manager for "bullying" and then go and deliberately eff up some procedure causing misery to a small business somewhere in the country so he'd be taken off the job and left to surf the web all day instead.

Round and round it would go. He was living with us for about eighteen months and had spent two months of those at home with "stress" - one month each time. In that time he'd stalled the disciplinary system so much that nobody knew which case was open against him at any one time so even more delays resulted.

sadie06 · 18-07-2014 12:43PM

Guy who took the keys to the bosses jeep and took it for a weekend away with his mates while the boss was away in the UK. Boss came home early…it didn't end well.

waraf · 18-07-2014 12:44PM

partyguinness wrote: »

God help you if you hand your notice in, generally you are frog marched out of the place a few hours later and given pay in lieu. Do not come back. It's like they take it personally.

Why is that a bad thing? You don't have to work your month's notice but you still get paid for it.

gramar · 18-07-2014 12:44PM

Thargor wrote: »

I haven't done any work in about 2 weeks, split my time between browsing Boards and reading ebooks on my phone in the bathroom.

Is that you Owen Keegan?

Worst work attitude you've ever witnessed

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