Random Bosses Describe Worst Employees They Had To Deal With (15 items)

• (#1) A Hospital Aide Falsified Patient Vitals

  From Redditor /u/mamblepamble:

  We were hospital aides on an inpatient floor. So we changed incontinent patients, did vitals, helped patients walked to and from the bathroom or chairs, that kind of stuff. Nurses depended on us to do our jobs so they could do theirs.

  This girl would avoid doing any work she could. She'd constantly hide in one of the back nursing stations and hunker down where she couldn't be seen and [then she] read. She'd ignore call bells for select patients who were known to be incontinent and messy. Just sit and read while the bell went off and [she would] wait for one of the others to grab it. She was allotted a 30-minute break and constantly took up to an hour. When she was training a new girl, she encouraged the same work avoidance behavior.

  Then she got busted for falsifying vitals. She was upset that she couldn't take her break on her schedule, so when she did go, she was gone for an hour and a half. She came back after the second round of vitals for her shift was due, so instead of getting [them], she made them up. Manually typed bullsh*t into the computer instead of taking vitals on the machine and saving them (they went to a Wi-Fi cloud to the chart).

  What ended up happening was she put an average blood pressure measurement (think 130/85) on a patient whose normal parameters were about 90/60. So the nurse sees this, notice the patients blood pressure is 40 points higher than it should be, so she gives him a dose of BP meds. His BP tanks, the patient nearly dies. It's a sh*tshow.

  She gets busted because our heart monitor tech suspected what had happened, gathered ALL the vitals machines and printed out copies of every set of vitals that had been taken that evening. Even if you don't save it to the cloud under a patients name, the machine saves it.

  None of the numbers matched the ones this girl put in the computer, which proved she hadn't done her job. Who knows how long she'd been doing that without getting caught. We'd get busy and lose track of her all the time.

  Because of that tech, the nurse wasn't in trouble and that aide got fired. Good riddance.

  ETA: she wasn't prosecuted. I strongly believe she should have. My bosses thought it was embarrassing and figured firing her was enough.

  The day she was fired, we had a pre-scheduled employee meeting, an hour before the evening shift started. She was late to that and was floated to another unit, so [she] flounced off before the bosses could say "wait wait." So she takes her purse to another unit. Gets called back, gets shown the evidence and she confesses and is fired. Has to walk back to the other unit to get her purse. Has to walk to our unit to get her coat and empty her locker. Had to wait for security to take her ID. The entire time she is sobbing. She wore a lot of makeup and looked a disaster.

  It ended up being very public and embarrassing for her. The entire small hospital knew.

  She still deserved to be charged. But damn I hoped she learned something.
• (#2) A Waiter Threw Toast At Late-Arriving Customers

  From Redditor /u/fisch09:

  I worked at a restaurant [that was a] small, family-style breakfast place. I wasn't the newest employee, but I was the most regular one on Sundays, so I became the assistant manager (I was 16). I was also the only waiter.

  One employee had a meltdown because five minutes before closing, a couple walked in and ordered. I told her they won't be long, and worst case, we get time and a half. While trying to calm her down, three more tables walked in. I seated them, took their order, [and] when she found out, to keep her calm, I said just make their toast and you can go, [and] I'll give you [until] I leave on your card. Next thing I know, she comes out from the kitchen flinging toast at the costumers like throwing stars, [and then she] goes into the kitchen breaks a few things and leaves.
• (#3) One Night Guard Spent Shifts Getting Drunk On Hard Cider

  From Redditor /u/therealbighairy:

  I'm a security supervisor. I came in one morning, and found the nightshift guard asleep, with an empty cider bottle beside him... The cider in question was what you'd call hard cider. This sh*t wasn't just hard, it was f*cking solid. If you're in the UK, it was White Lightning.

  I walked around him, set up my computer, filled in the paper work to get him off-site, called control, waited an hour for the company to send a rep down, drank a coffee, all without this f*cker doing more than snoring or farting.

  When he was cleaning out his locker, a whole bunch of empties fell out. He hadn't even had the sense to toss them.
• (#4) One Woman Said She Had A Brain Tumor So She Could Avoid One Day Of Work

  From Redditor /u/coydog33:

  I had this wacko who worked for me at a company that rhymes with "Blows" and is a home-improvement warehouse. She told everyone in the store that she had a brain tumor and was going to have emergency surgery for it on a Saturday.

  The following Monday, she strolls in back to work. We were expecting her to be out for a rather long time. We had arranged for flowers and get-well cards and had her shifts covered for the week.

  We ask her if she had surgery. "Oh yeah. They removed the tumor." Did I mention that she had all of her hair? No? Oh, well, SHE HAD ALL OF HER HAIR! Not to mention she actually came into work. To describe her lying as pathological is doing the word an injustice.
• (#5) One Employee Stole Money To Buy Shoes On Her Break

  From Redditor /u/Otakudemon:

  Back when I was a manager at a pretzel place, we noticed when we had this girl on the register that the drawer would always come up short - so we were watching her. We were between paychecks at the time, and she had mentioned she was broke.

  She went on break as we were counting the drawer and we discovered we were $125 short. She came back with new shoes and was talking about how cute they looked, and we asked her, "How much were your shoes, about $125?"

  And I will always remember her shocked genuine look of surprise as she said, "How did you know?!"
• (#6) One Guy Brought Video Game Consoles To Play At Work

  From Redditor /u/SpaceCampRejects:

  The company I work for is pretty hard to get into, even if you have an impressive resume or an awesome reference. Unfortunately, we had a new client. In one quarter, his business would keep our lights on for about 10 years. He asked if his cousin or "little nephew" could have an entry-level position at our company, and we reluctantly said yes.

  The kid surfed the web all day looking at cars to buy. Whenever we'd ask him if he completed a task, he'd either lie to us and say he did or say he didn't know how to do it and didn't want to bother any of us for help. Then he brought in all of his gaming systems into the conference room saying that clients could play them while they waited - which would have been nice, but he played games in the conference room all day. So it came to a point where we gave him the least amount of work to do (ordering paper, delivering lunch, etc).

  Two years later, the client comes to us and says that he's going to have his nephew handle the work he was giving us for him/helping him start his own consulting firm. Apparently the kid lied like no other making his uncle believe that he was helping run our company.

  Three months later he came back to us for our business. Nephew tried hiring a consulting firm [on] the side to do his work so he could play Sonic the Hedgehog all day.
• (#7) A Man Hit Himself In The Face With A Sledgehammer Trying To Swat A Wasp

  From a deleted Redditor:

  We once had a guy working for us who tried to swat a wasp with a sledgehammer. The wasp flew on his face, so he hit himself in the face with a sledgehammer, [then] tried to sue the company for not telling him swatting wasps with a giant f*cking hammer was a dumbass thing to do in health and safety talks. He lost the case and the wasp got away.
• (#8) Somebody Punched A Co-Worker In The Face Under The Assumption He Wouldn't Get Fired

  From Redditor /u/fredfenster:

  A few years back I made some changes to our employee manual, so I put a couple copies in the break room for everyone to read if they wanted. The next day, one guy from the shipping department (who had worked there for over 10 years) walked into the main office and punched another guy [with whom] he had been having a little feud for years right in the side of the face. Caught him totally off guard, knocked him out of his chair and onto the floor.

  The shipping department guy then walks out of the office and goes back to his job like nothing happened. Police were called, [they] gave him a citation, and I told him to grab everything and he was done. He got all upset because he had been reading the new employee manual and one part had said if there was a problem with an employee, they would be verbally reprimanded then suspended from work, and if it continues, they would be fired. He assumed he could punch the other guy in the face twice without being fired.
• (#9) One Employee Robbed A Bank And Fled To Canada

  From Redditor /u/VestedTomb:

  I once had an employee who was seemingly a reformed convict, but ended up later robbing a bank and tried to take the money north into Canada (I'm in Colorado). He took two of our employees with them and they were caught about halfway through Wyoming.

  In honesty, it ended up being funny because he signed his real name on the bank's welcome booklet before he proceeded to rob them.
• (#10) Nursing Assistants Stole Medicine And Money From Patients

  From Redditor /u/Cowgirlup365:

  The nursing assistant who stole Oxycodone from a hospice patient.

  Honorable mention: the nursing assistant who went food shopping and paid her cell phone bills with a client's credit card.
• (#11) Somebody's Personal Hygiene Was In Question

  From Redditor /u/Sixad:

  The one that had to be repeatedly sent home to shower and change.
• (#12) One Guy Tried To Set Himself On Fire

  From Redditor /u/mack_daddy9249:

  Introduced flame retardant jackets to employees who were working around highly flammable materials. Employee thought (or lack of thought) to try out the retardant aspect on the production floor by opening the jacket and trying to burn it with a lighter. Ripped the guy off the floor and threw him in my office.

  After cooling a bit, [I] threw out the question, "You tried to light yourself on fire, what do you think of yourself?" to see how he would self-reflect from that perspective aside from risking other workers. His response is that phrased in that manner, it makes him sound like an idiot. I agreed and called him an idiot and welcomed him to report it to HR while he's leaving.
• (#13) Someone Called In Sick To Perform At SXSW

  From Redditor /u/kranzmonkey:

  Had an employee play sick for two weeks, [he was] sending us daily emails to update us on his condition. At the same time, his band was posting photos on Facebook of their road trip to SXSW.
• (#14) An Employee Started Stalking His Boss

  From Redditor /u/Chromatinkerer:

  My boss had a former employee who he had a disagreement with. The employee started calling his house in the middle of the night and hanging up, repeatedly.
• (#15) An Employee Thought She Had A Psychic Connection With Cats

  From Redditor /u/bluemerle:

  I run the vet department of a local animal shelter. We had one vet assistant who thought she had some sort of psychic connection with cats and would leave all their cages open to prove it. We had to let her go after three cats went missing.

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