Random Office And Store Workers Describe Craziest Accusations Their Bosses Have Made (15 items)

• (#15) They Were Accused Of Stealing A Security Wire

  From Redditor /u/Bean_Bandit: 

  I worked in the stock room of a Gordman's and I was accused of stealing a security cable that goes on jackets... Yeah, what would I do with one of those? Oh and it turns out, our store didn't even carry those cables. It was my phone charger I had in my hand.
• (#13) They Were Accused Of Stealing, But The Manager Lied About All The Claims

  From Redditor /u/Osiris32: 

  Several years ago, I was working for a sporting good store as the customer service desk guy... While it wasn't a glamorous job, I liked it because I'm an outdoors guy, and so the clientele were fun to talk to. One day, we were informed we were getting a new general manager, [but] she enjoyed making employees upset, didn't give a flying f*ck about our customers, did nothing to improve anything about the store, and kept the other managers in her office with endless meetings about "improving" the store. After a few months of this bullsh*t, and seeing some of the high school girls... crying after her ranting at them, I had enough. I wrote a rather eloquent letter to corporate about her behavior and actions and had several employees sign it. Two days later, several regional higher-ups arrived and proceeded to chew her out big time. She was suspended for two weeks and told that if the store didn't improve withing the next quarter, she'd be fired...

  I thought I had won. But no, I had not. Apparently, she found out it was me who wrote the letter... and wanted revenge. So she got into the computer system, and started to fake records showing I had been selling gift cards to myself, pocketing the cash difference, and then buying merchandise with those cards (mostly candy/pop/small stuff, which she was probably pocketing since our counts weren't ever off).

  She then called in loss prevention, who weren't doing their jobs too well, because they didn't look closely at the files and their "last edited" dates... because they believed it and called in the county sheriffs [who] ended up arresting me on felony theft charges. Taken to jail, booked, the whole she-bang. I was in tears for pretty much three days. But I knew this was bullsh*t, so I go my parents to help hire a lawyer for me... When we arrived, the DA was all smiles and very polite. He informed me that the paperwork wasn't quite done yet, but that they were dropping all charges, and filing False Report charges against my old manager. The investigators had looked over the evidence, and found that A) the files for almost three months worth of thefts had all been edited on two days, both of which I had not been present for, but that she had, B) they had all been edited from her computer, a computer I did not have access too, and C) several of the thefts occurred on days when I was in the system as being out of state on vacation.

  I felt a lot happier after that, and felt even better when my ex-boss was found to have fled the state, and checked herself into a mental hospital for a nervous breakdown. She was eventually brought back, charged, and convicted. Last I saw, she was an assistant manager at a gas station, while I'm now a federal firefighter and in school to become a police officer.
• (#3) An Employer Wrote Them Up For Stealing Trash

  From Redditor /u/iambeaker:

  I had an employer of mine write me up for stealing trash. In reality, at the end of my shift, one of my duties was to gather all the trash. Often times, I would pick through the trash and sort all the paper, pop cans, and water bottles in our company's recycle bin. We had a special promotion with our trash company in which our company would get money based on the number of pounds we recycled. It ended up being $1500 per month AND we didn't pay our trash bill.

  So long story short, I got a final write up for stealing company time for sorting our recyclables. So I stopped, the following month, our manager was pissed that she had to pay a trash bill. She called the trash company and the company told her that the past two years she didn't pay for trash because our company would recycle so much, we would get a $1500 check AND free trash service.

  My boss thought that the checks were a bonus for her. Anyhow, the district manager was reviewing the write ups and saw I got written up for stealing trash, so he called me up and asked me what was going on. I told him the story about the trash company and their promotion. He congratulated me for a job well done.

  The next day he flew in to talk to my manager. He asked my manager what happened to the $20,000 that she got from the trash company. Apparently, she tried to pin it back on me, and our district manager promptly fired her. After escorting her out, he called me into the office. He told me what happened in that meeting, and offered me a promotion to Assistant Manager.
• (#7) They Were Accused Of Doing Cocaine Because Of A Nosebleed

  From Redditor /u/Drumlin: 

  In high school, I had got into a fist fight at a party, and my opponent had popped me in the nose. There was no bruising to my face, so there were no obvious signs of the altercation.

  I worked at a grocery store, and the next day I was helping my manager pull cases of toilet paper off of a high stock room shelf. I was up on the rack, tossing the cases down to him. While doing this, my nose started bleeding again, and dripped blood on his pristine white shirt.

  He got incredibly angry, pulled me in to his office, and accused me of doing cocaine on the job. He suspended me right then and there.

  Also, I was in a work program with my high school, and it nearly caused me to fail that portion of the class.

  Fortunately, I was in a union, and filed a grievance. I got paid for the time lost, and had my grade for the work program class restored. But none of this was easy, and I was being accused of being a drug abuser the entire time. I experienced several nail biting weeks where I wondered if I was going to be able to graduate.
• (#2) They Were Fired For Helping Customers

  From Redditor /u/DazeLost:

  I was working retail at Best Buy at the time and they had me working in MP3 players/Cell Phones despite the fact that DVDs/Video Games were really more my wheelhouse. But I worked where they told me and I did my job well.

  During Christmas season, it got really busy so everyone was running around helping every department. I was hanging out in my own section when a woman comes over, asks about some headphones, and I help her. She then asks me if the Dance Dance Revolution Madcatz mat she bought for her daughter is any good, and I ask if she has any of the games (she didn't) and showed her a slightly more expensive (but better) copy of a Konami mat with a game. She thanked me since she didn't even know it needed a game and went off.

  My department manager comes up behind me, tells me to meet him in the break room in five minutes, and rips in to me. He says that the department with the best revenue gets bonuses (only true for him, not for the rest of us below him) and we shouldn't be helping customers in other sections get more expensive things. He says he'd be shocked if I made it past the winter. I just say, "Yes sir," and go back to work.

  Come January, I get fired by department manager recommendation.
• (#9) They Were Accused Of Goofing Off In The Bathroom

  From Redditor /u/stimbus: 

  My boss thought I was goofing off in the restroom. For a few months there he wouldn't let me flush the toilet until he came in and made sure I actually used it.

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