They put security cameras in the employee bathrooms now? Oh shit! :eek:
Well, not really HR or anything, but one of my former co-workers from Subway apparently got fired. He was this crazy first-generation American guy, of Italian heritage. One day, a customer walked up and asked for a foot-long Italian. He replied: “I’m standing right here. Anything else with that?” The customer was slightly flustered. Our manager was not so easygoing.
My dad once, while working as a manger, had to fire some guys who’d been strolling in and out of the clean room without any regard for those little suits or anything. That managed to push back the timeline for some weather satellite or something by about 6 months.
Holy crap that’s funny.
Not in HR, but I’ve had my share of doozies.
At a company I used to work at (which no longer exists), I interviewed a guy and asked HR to go ahead and hire him for a management-level position. Evidently, HR forgot to check the guy’s legal status in the country and went ahead and hired him. The COO told me that the company could get in a lot of trouble if he continued to work without producing the right paperwork, but that we couldn’t fire him. So essentially, HR made me do their job for them - it took nearly three weeks for me to get him to produce his work papers. All the while, the new employee was getting upset that I was “harrassing” him continuously for his documentation. Thankfully, he eventually got his stuff together and the problem took care of itself.
I once had an assistant who used to call up suppliers we did business with and hit them up for tickets to sporting events, plays, concerts, etc. After getting several phone calls from vendors who wanted to make the guy happy, but were upset he was hitting them up all the time, I had to take him aside and explain to him that our vendors weren’t his personal entertainment valets.
Another time, I received word from several suppliers that someone in management at an agency I was working at was speaking to several other people in the industry about starting his own agency and taking some clients from the one we were both working at. I told his boss, who launched an investigation and found all sorts of material on his computer that he had created on company time and e-mails to people about how he intended to start his own venture. Since I was one of the physically largest people working there, I was asked to stand outside his boss’ door while he was fired, in case he decided to become violent. He was fuming as I was escorting him from the building, but he managed to keep his emotions in check for the most part.
I had to pull “security duty” in another case where a sysadmin was habitually taking naps in the server room when she was supposed to be working. When she was fired, she ran back into the server room and started packing up all sorts of proprietary material that she claimed was her own personal stuff. The COO came in and explained to her that we would go through her desk and separate the proprietary material from her personal material, box up the personal stuff and ship it to her, whereupon she started getting really emotional. She was yelling and screaming and the COO and I had to talk her down so that she would leave the building. The whole time, I was wigging out because I was unwilling to physically restrain her, but it looked like she was on the edge of becoming violent.
There are many, many more, including having to talk to an employee about having sex with a sysadmin in the server room, having to fire two people for conspiring with a client to start the client’s internal marketing department despite having employment contracts in place that specifically forbade such things, having to talk to another employee who wasn’t even under my supervision about his date’s violent behavior at a company holiday party… Lots of drama.
Did you ask this supervisor if he’d ever seen the movie Audition?
Reminds me of the guy I used to work with in the deli. Did a great Lorena Bobbitt imitation with the hot dogs. Heard he was seen by a customer doing it, and got fired.
Susan
Can somebody help me out with this? I don’t understand why the guy brought the girl to the office to call her parents (unless maybe he was afraid of retaliation by the parents at his house or something), but what’s the problem with the guy’s judgement? I could see faulting his judgement if he’d started a relationship with the underage girl, but he intentionally didn’t do that.
I would have fired him as well. The relationship isn’t the problem.
He didn’t want the call traced back to him, because of the legal implications. So what does he do? He exposes to the company by coming in on a weekend, and using the company phone.
I guess it’s as if he drove her back home, but didn’t want anyone to right down the license plate, so he uses a company car. So now the company can be sued as well
This is what I don’t understand. What legal implications? Apparently he didn’t maintain or further explore the relationship once he realized she was underaged.
I’m not saying he was right in taking her to the company to make the call … that was dumb. But I don’t see what he can be faulted for otherwise, unless I’m missing something.
So he claims. Judging by his response once he discovers that she is underage, it think his story is very reasonable.
But all it takes is a pissed off parent who thinks he was actually trolling for little girls. Or maybe he did do something, but the girl is afraid to say. Or maybe the girl is in big trouble and sees that if she is a victim she can get out of punishment, so she claims she was tricked and molested
They go to a lawyer.
“We are going to sue everyone we can, and let the courts assess liability”
“Well, she called us from Company X. Our caller ID logs can show this”
“We’ll sue them too”
Is the company really liable? I dont know, I’m not a lawyer. Maybe they can get the case against them dismissed. Maybe after the legal dust settles they are cleared. But they will have to get a lawyer to get that done. So they will have to get themselves out of trouble that they had nothing to do with, and shouldn’t have been dragged into.
He wasn’t actually witnessed in the act. But he forgot to take his paraphenalia with him when he left.
Not a HR person, but I did have to explain to a person one time that we had hired him without his knowledge.
He suffered from multiple personality disorder and had applied, come in for the interview, done really well, and was offered the job. When he failed to show up I called his telephone number and he said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I went through the entire story and he finally admitted to suffering from MPD and that one of his other “selves” had been the one hired.
And no, I am not making this up. Seriously.
Bizarre, plnnr. Did the hired personality ever show up?
Not doubting you at all, plnnr, but I can’t help thinking what a fantastic, multi-purpose excuse that would be.
“Hey, boss, you know I wanted to be on time but he* turned off the alarm clock.”
Something similar happened at a rehab clinic I worked for. One month the phone bill got forwarded accidently to our clinic instead of to accounts payable at the corporate offices. The office manager took one look at it and hit the roof because there were pages and pages of incoming 800 calls. All our patients were local so only the two of us in the billing department would ever have need to give out the 800 number. All the other calls would have been from other clinics or the coporate office. The thing is, alot of the calls were from local numbers. Finally she saw a number she recognized as one of the employee’s phone numbers. Turns out, most of the employees, including the ones who lived where the call would be local, were giving out the 800 number to all their friends and family.
You’d be surprised how many of those employees never did get that 800 calls are only free to the caller. And even the ones that did still didn’t understand what the big deal was.
I didn’t do that coding, either.
No, but I did see him on the street several times. Which one of the "him"s I saw was impossible to say - I wasn’t about to strike up a conversation with any of them.
This is a case of something weird that HR did to me:
When I interviewed for my present job, I got asked what religion I was, and what religions were my mother and father.
Of course, this was a long time ago, and they are much more professional about things now.
I guess my answer was OK…
I don’t recall any of the complaints being about her leaking, just about her being super-duper braless. It was a warehouse (about 75% male) and I seriously doubt they would have complained had it been certain other female employee employees pulling the same stunt. In this young woman’s case, I think the co-workers were complaining because they were ginormous and probably weren’t what you’d call er, um…perky. That’s my best guess.
YIKES! :eek: The times, they have a-changed! How long ago was this? Just curious.