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Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

A male staff member was yelling at and berating a female for god knows what. She was trying to get away from him, and he'd followed her around the office down the stairs and into the washroom.

She was the manager's fiancee, and there were three witnesses. We were honestly worried for her safety and the receptionist was about to call 911.

Consequences for the abusive minidicked coworker? NONE.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

The big incident at my previous job was the (extremely incompetent) HR person accidentally sharing a spreadsheet of every employee's salary. I was an hourly worker at the time and thought it was funny, but some of the senior engineers were pissed to find out how much more other engineers made. HR was not fired, instead she was put on a temporary paid leave.

Other incidents include:

  • One of the owners' vape exploded, forcing everyone to evacuate.
  • VP of the company got caught buying escort services on the company credit card.
  • Aforementioned owner (who was no longer an owner after the company was bought out) got fired shortly after a town hall zoom meeting, where he used a Trump/Pence background.
  • The head of the NOC team had a stroke at work.
  • COO "accidentally" revealed in front of everyone that one of the Project Managers had cancer. She sued, and they settled.
  • COO verbally abused one of the senior managers over the phone during a big meeting. He sued, and they settled.

It was a pretty shitty company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Them including that pic of Audrey Donovan is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Not a fun story but new CEO comes in, pricing structure heavily modified to be more aggressive towards bringing clients into our ecosystem of products, we lose a whale of a client, 7 percent of the company is laid off including the newest guy on my team,and then magically acquire new responsibilities for the same pay. Capitalism baby.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's complicated to answer in my case, as nobody gets along (I'm one of the few people with a relatively stable work relation), so there's an incident everyday, though there are also occasional ones that stand out a lot. I for some reason have a lot of bad rep without any actual cause for it and remember people storming into our operations more than once and demanding I be exiled from the place. There are two types of people in this situation whenever it has happened: those who are almost about to oblige and fulfill their wish, and me who calls authorities and ends up dealing with the situation before they can do so before everyone just forgets all that happened.

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