What’s the worst thing you’ve seen in the workplace?

[chbahjng]

Mine won’t be half as bad as some peoples or even a quarter but -

I worked in about a team of 20 and it became very obvious that higher management wanted this team dissolved. At least 12 of us left within the space of a 3 months (no backfilling) because they made it so horrendous and then management shit themselves because all they had left were the lazy ones who did no work.

Another place I worked one manager (who was clearly miserable in life) would get people fired like it was a sport.

I worked in a care home. The absolute twunt of a deputy manager used to do the odd shift. I remember doing a sleep in, 3pm-3pm shift. He did the next 3-3 and I came in the next night.
Went to bed at midnight. Saw a load of dry bogeys on the wall by the pillow.

Crazy stuff but you’d never believe even if I said- NDAs mean I can’t be for you ask…

Nursing home.
Apparently one of the better ones in the town
Randomly changed ALL the 10pm meds to 6pm so they could get rid of the night nurse.
Training was unpaid.
They then worked out it was cheaper to get newly qualified nurses from Romania and pay them peanuts and shove them in a house share then pay UK nurses who understood employment law and their rights a bit better.

I was 22 standing at the vending machine in the staff room buying chocolate. In the glass front, I seen the reflection of my manager pretending to have sex with me from behind. He was with two other male members of staff. I was just mortified - but managed to turn around and say I can see you in the glass! I’m 57 now and have never forgotten it 😞

Posts like this just annoy me. Not because I even remotely want to know but because it’s like you want people to beg. No one cares.

Well that was a worthwhile contribution... not

Working for a fairly large company at the time and everybody received an email from HR asking them to please refrain from leaving plastic cups filled with poo next to the sinks in the toilets 🙀

A director threw a phone (old chunky landline type) at a wall and narrowly missed my head.

An unknown person who would poo on the toilet floor. This happened on and off for quite a while - we called them the phantom
shitter!

His name wasn’t Gregg Wallace was it??

Jesus! Fuck!!!!!!!

Why just why would you do that at work (or anywhere????)

We have someone who regularly (almost weekly) blocks one of the toilets. Obvs does a mahoosive dump and makes a nest of the toilet paper to sit on and then 'hides' the dump by putting it on top for others to find.......

Oh gawd not another one!!!! Whatever must they be like at home?

Surely if the loos are communal they risk getting caught???

We could never work out who or why it happened. There were some other weird toilet related things but we could see those were cultural. Randomly doing your business on the floor is just strange!

What an utter bitch! 😮

A late friend of mine worked for a company that processed leather and he worked in the labs. Sounded an awful company to work for and he was nearly killed in one incident involving a caustic liquid spill. However after being called in to a meeting having been off sick he told the interviewer (there was no love lost between them) that he (my friend) had 'sucked a bad cock'. Cue uproar about this comment but my friend (who may/may not have been gay) stuck with that line and challenged the manager to disprove it. Heard the story from him and a couple of others who worked there.

Name changed for this:

Worked in a dementia care home as a 20 year old. Some of the things I saw there I will never unsee.

Thr food was beyond awful. Everything was the local supermarket value range. Evening 'tea' was often stuff like ravioli on toast. 3 pillows ravioli and 1 slice value white bread per resident. Or corned beef sandwiches when 1 can of corned beef had to feed 12 people. When I asked why the residents were not being given more I was told that the elderly didn't eat very much closely followed by 'pad it out with a bit of ketchup'. If I was on night shifts I used to take my own food in for the residents.

1 incontinence pad per resident per 24 hours.

The manager slapping a resident who wouldn't leave her alone

Residents medication being stolen

Staff stealing residents clothes if they were even remotely nice.

The managers 15 year old daughter working in the place and then lying to inspectors when they came about her age.

Staff routinely working in the home when they were in the country illegally.

The care home was eventually closed by the care inspectors/local social services on a 72 hour notice. Thankfully.

Maybe it’s a kink? The thought of being caught?

Their bathroom at home is probably pristine 😂

@whereshallistart

Thank goodness that “care” home was closed! Despicable.

Nowhere near as bad as some of these, but in my first Saturday job in a shoe shop in the 90s, I was forced to hire an elf costume (complete with huge enclosed head) to wear during my Xmas shift. The rental cost more than I earned that day :(

Bullying in its extreme…completely ignored by all reverent managers and HR..disgusting behaviours accepted…generated a toxic environment…all due to one persons narcissistic traits,,and many other persons inability to manage.

Please tell all !

Honestly don’t encourage attention seeking posts like this.

Come to think of it my last job was awful, spiralled my mental health. I was brand new to that sector (which they knew) and unfortunately I had a manager who did not want to train me.

I tried so hard to develop and progress but it was bad. I asked for feedback on some work and he said “it’s ok”…. What am I going to learn from that?! When things eventually got escalated and I had to give examples I was told this was perfectly fine feedback to give. Obviously so much more happened but I don’t want it to be too outing.

All management were men and they turned it into an absolute boys club. They made sure I got the worst grade at the end of the year and when I said I was appealing it they got scared and changed it.

Make co-worker kissed female co-worker on the mouth in our shared open plan desk area in front of all of us (who happened to be looking). Female, shocked, sat down, tried to laugh it off. Male proclaimed himself, The Kissing Bandit.

Not too long after, did it again, to another female co-worker, laughed and went back to his desk. Female looked at me and made a face, sticking her tongue out, and mouthed Gross!
Then he did it yet again to another female co-worker at her desk when a co-worker was giving her a shoulder massage (I know) and her eyes were closed.
No one reported anything as far as I know. I didn't either.
Then a month, or two, later at an after work get-together it was brought up and the two managers who heard it seemed shocked.
No idea if there were repercussions.
After that, I was out for a drink with another co-worker. She told me he offered to take her for a ride on his motorcycle one lunch hour. She went. While out he told her he was in an "open marriage" and propositioned her. She declined.