What's your best work gossip/drama?

[SendNoodles]

I'm self-employed (and love it), but I do miss the gossip and petty work drama. Anything good to share?

In my past jobs, the most shocking was a TA who lied and said that she had given medication to a kid when she hadn't (because she had forgotten). Not really gossip, but I also had a coworker who literally hadn't eaten any vegetables her whole adult life.

A ghost!! Seen by 3 different people. I don't want to see it, and I don't like all the talk about it!

Well, I was not expecting THAT! I hope you never see it!

My office has one of them as well. Shadow figure, all black, about 6ft tall and very clearly a man. Didn’t pay it much attention until I was there alone and could have sworn I saw a coworker walk into another room. No one was there and the figure was gone.

That's funny. I knew someone who WFH from Peru - until her boss worked it out. And no, their name wasn't Paddington. 🌹

No no no no no. Just...no.

Shopping Centre manager took bribes for letting in traders on a tempory basis, went on for years, the money was supposed to go into a charity fund, then the secratary realised that there was no money - he was sacked.
Used to work in craft fairs where everything was supposed to be hand made, a lady made a killing selling beautifully dressed dolls, then another trader found her stock was from China and she was denounced and kicked out.

Some of these leave me open-mouthed 😆

A colleague had to work from home for the next few days as he had tonsillitis, his boss was going on holiday the next day, they jumped in to each other at the airport queue for Lanzarote!

This happened recently so not sure what will happen to him.

I dobbed a colleague in once and got her fired. She was meant to be off sick and in hospital recovering from major surgery.

She publicly posted FB photos of herself at a Twilight convention in a city 100 miles away.

In my defence, she was a nasty arsehole who among other things admitted to drink-driving, and made my working life a misery through bullying.

When I was doing my nurse training at Manchester Royal Infirmary, back in the 80s, we had lots of ghost stories - we used to sit in the canteen in the middle of the night, when we were on night duty, and tell these stories during our break.

There was Old Sir Jasper, on the back corridor, by the Renal Unit. Two children playing at the foot of a bed in one of the wards. An Unnaturally Cold sluice. A spirit on one of the wards that would pull out the Resus trolley from the wall, if someone on that ward was going to have a cardiac arrest. And a whole, ghost ward - the top floor of the surgical unit, where apparently a bomb in the war had destroyed a whole ward - but at night, in the ward below, you could hear the trolleys rumbling around over head.

I never saw any of these - but we loved scaring ourselves silly with the stories.

In a previous job a woman (probably about 30) who was dating & got engaged to a bloke in the office who was around her age.

But it was common knowledge that she was also shagging a much older, senior guy in the office throughout the whole relationship/ engagement saga! I have no idea how her boyfriend/financee didn’t know what was going on?? They did end up married, no idea how he was so clueless

I worked with a PA to CEO who was so obviously shagging the (married) CEO neither of them bothered to pretend.

I just end up feeling sorry for everyone. The wife, the PA, everyone else who has to hear about it... I've also started to think the workplace is basically an affair hook up place!

Someone at our work had a baby during the pandemic and didn't tell anyone at work she was pregnant or had had a baby! I guess she just vaguely logged in enough to get away with it in the early weeks. Eventually I think she was caught when a family member tagged her in a post on social media and colleagues saw . I mean, she lost her job and I kind of felt sorry for her but on the other hand it was a major deception!

Same, awful black comedy.

Is having a baby a sackable offense?
What reason did they give for sacking her?

I dont know the ins and outs but it was a role where you would have had a lot of trust placed in you so dishonesty would not be acceptable and I think there hàd been huge concerns about performance over that time so the discovery of the baby meant it all made sense. Plus I am pretty sure you are not allowed to work for the first couple of weeks after giving birth

How weird, Was this in the UK?
I wonder what reason she had for not just telling work the situation and taking a short maternity leave.

This is so weird! I wonder why she didn’t want mat leave?

I presume your workplace had their case and legal stuff air tight for firing her for having a baby!! Did she try to fight it or claim discrimination?

I once had a coworker on day 1 tell me they weren't really into comedy.
Eh what?

I think she had only recently started before she had the baby so would have only got stat maternity pay?

I don't know the HR side but I imagine if you deceive your employer to that extent you wouldn't have much hope at a tribunal

Weedophile 🤣🤣🤣

Was at a conference and an HR manager from another site in the next county to where I was based, made a big thing about how wonderful it was that my site had released Joe Bloggs to cover at theirs for the summer holidays.

But we hadn't: there'd been a big hoo-ha about this chap requesting 6 weeks leave over the summer and his head of dept had backed him up as Joe was supposedly visiting his sick / dying dad half way round the world. As it was summer holiday season we were having to pay for agency cover. Joe was basically working his leave (earning agency rates ) and costing us a fortunate. Been going on for years apparently.

Told my manager on return from conference - head of dept resigned from the embarrassment of it all and Joe got sacked.

One of my first jobs as graduate trainee many years ago in a public sector professional team. The team leader was (to me) a sophisticated woman in her thirties and a role model to aspire to but junior staff in the office sometimes bitched that her perfect life wasn't all it seemed (always talking about rich boyfriends and a glam lifestyle). After passing her final professional exams after several years of p/t study, taking exam leave every year, she was promoted to manage another team (a big step up in responsibility) and bought cakes for all to celebrate qualifying. Couple of weeks later we were all summoned to the top Director's office to be told she'd been sacked - given her new responsibilities he'd had her CV details re-checked and discovered she'd never sat a single professional exam. I suppose it was easier to get away with that sort of thing then. Sometimes wonder what she did next.

In my first day at a new job I went to the ladies loo. I realised my new boss was shagging the office manager in the next cubicle. Grim. Never told anyone apart from DH. Luckily I got sent to work for a client on another site. Apparently it went on for several years.

I worked in a restaurant where everyone was shagging someone, after hours, all over the restaurant. Table 17 was the biggest table and got a right old pounding. The lock ins were legendary.