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I think coworkers are even worse than customers most times. But I guess that's because we're stuck with them, and customers come and go. My coworker now is wild. The Big 3 topics you shouldn't talk about at work... yeah, those are her favorite. And she'll straight up talk politics with customers, too.
I'm always impressed by people's inability to retain information. Maybe I just got lucky, but I learn something once and then remember it forever. Whereas, other people will need to hear it every year, or every month even.
I had a district manager who faked her fiancé being in a coma. She went the full 9 yards & would even send me poorly photoshopped pics of him in the hospital. In reality he was in jail for selling drugs & illegal firearms. While this man was “in a coma” she also started cheating on him with an old high school ex who was also quite the character.
On top of this, she started sending me nudes on multiple occasions & making jokes that I could ‘sleep my way to the top’ & would tell other coworkers that I was her lesbian lover. Which couldn’t have been further from the truth. She also took another coworker out to eat at a strip club on a work trip (with the new bf in toe) on the companies dime.
Eventually I worked up the courage to report her & she got fired. But not before she racked up $30k worth of charges on her corp card & earned herself a class C felony.
OOF.
Ugh, that’s rough. People forget we’re human too. Setting boundaries was the right move—no one deserves to be talked down to. You handled it with respect for yourself, which is huge!
A bank manager that couldn’t figure out pay time frames? 😬😬😬
Oh wow, that must’ve been a rollercoaster! It's wild how some folks just don’t absorb info, no matter how many times you share it. You sound like the kind of teammate who actually tries to prep people and ease confusion because that matters. What helped you stay patient through all that?
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He also went through like a new bank account every other month, mostly because he was reporting "fraud" (pretty sure it was just his inability not to overdraw the account). Right after I left, he went off on Payroll and HR because he gave them the incorrect account number, and supposedly didn't get his money.
Yeah, very glad it's not my problem anymore.
I think the craziest coworker I've ever had yelled at a little kid (about 12) and tried to punish her for being bullied. I stepped in, got my boss, and reassured her that she did the right thing for not taking crap from that punk (the bully). The same coworker got into a screaming match with 4 of my other coworkers who were trying to protect me from his harassment (this was before the issue I mentioned first). I'm in a much better place now.
my boss... when I started working here 3 years ago, they didn't submit my TD1 forms right, so for a year and a half I wasn't being taxed, I got the blame although the tax papers were filled out correctly. and than recently I took my vacation and obviously the boss knew as I emailed, verbally and wrote it on his calendar. The fallowing payday comes around and what do I know. its $1100 short. he says I never told him I wanted my vacay pay to be payed out for the time I'm gone, Keep in mind I didn't have to tell him last year or the year before. Hell gaslight you and everything until you can prove it was him.