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

• (#1) They Were Accused Of Stealing Office Water

  From Redditor /u/hammeresq:

  I'm on a diet that requires me to drink a metric sh*tton of water... so I carry around a 1L Nalgene bottle at all times.

  I'm a mid-level manager at a 60-person company. At the end of the work day, on my way out I pass the water cooler and fill my bottle up for the commute home. Yesterday I was doing just that when our office manager walked up and said the following: "You're leaving for the day, water is for employees to drink when they are working in the office only." I laughed it off, finished filling my bottle and headed home.

  I thought she was kidding, or at the very worst having a sh*tty day and lashing out, she wasn't. Today I get into the office with an email from her to myself, my boss (our CEO/founder), and our HR person saying that I am stealing from the company, that I didn't stop filling my water bottle and immediately apologize when confronted, and that she is officially reporting this behavior and asking to have it documented.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#4) They Were Accused Of Smoking In The Subway Freezer

  From Redditor /u/Muckef*ck:

  After working at Subway for five years, three of those being a manager, I was accused of turning off the cameras in the store and getting high in the cooler.
• (#5) They Were Accused Of Working Too Slowly, When Really The Boss Was Just Jealous

  From Redditor /u/Immamoonkin: 

  I used to work for a Kroger in Little Rock, AK, as a cake decorator part time. I was never actually trained for the job except how to properly put frosting on the cake or how to make a shell border. Everything else was pretty much self taught.

  I used what artist skills I have to not only do a shell border, but add art nouveau style borders with it, as well as create custom character cakes for birthdays if our store didn't have the cake kit to make it with. I had created cakes that were unique. I created a "premium" chocolate cake by using chocolate frosting, then using malt balls to create grape vines all over it. It sold 15 minutes after I put it on the cooler, so I had to make another. Also, you know those little "cupcake cakes" where they take a bunch of cupcakes and make a character? Yeah, I did goombas and Mario mushrooms for those.

  After working there for about three months, the bakery manager called me over to the side and told me that the head cake designer complained that I was too slow at making the cakes, and because of that, I was now required to stand up for seven hours straight making sandwiches until they feel I can become fast enough to make cakes again.

  I later found out that from other employees that it wasn't that I was slow; it was because no one was buying the cakes she was making.
• (#6) They Were Accused Of Being An Animal-Killer

  From Redditor /u/AustinFound: 

  I once used the phrase "more than one way to skin a cat" around a manager who had never heard the phrase. She called me into her office later to ask why I was saying such disgusting things, accused me of being a sicko who kills animals, and then threatened to fire me if she heard anything like it ever again.
• (#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.
• (#8) A Chemist Was Accused Of Making Up Science

  From Redditor /u/chcor70:

  I was a chemist working for the govt. For density we used to use pyncometers which were defined volume vessels with a hole for a thermometer and we would perform our analysis on a old balance. We had extra money in the budget so I bought a electronic density apparatus for a new balance. Anyway, my team leader who was in his 70s had no idea how it worked and forbid me from using it telling the lab director I was "making up science with the balances." The lab director walked me into the wet lab and I showed him how this new piece of equip would save us hours from having to do prep with the pycnometers. He laughed and said this is the govt whats the hurry. Pretty sad.
• (#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.
• (#10) He Was Accused Of Stealing $3

  From Redditor /u/LeMadnessofKingHippo: 

  Back when I was in high school, I worked for my town's parks department. One time, my boss (who was a total sleazeball who sexually harassed every girl there, and hated me mostly for not being female) calls me in to his office. While there, he accuses me of stealing a $3 check, and then says that I have to be let go. I tell him point-blank that if I was to steal from the department, it would be something a lot more than a measly $3 check... Later on, I find out from a friend of mine that he found the check underneath his desk, and then a month later someone finally reported him for harassment and he got fired too.
• (#11) They Were Called Stupid For Not Cheating A Customer

  From Redditor /u/WhooshBulletTime: 

  Last night my manager called me stupid and uneducated for not cheating a customer out of 15 dollars due to a computer error. She thought it was obvious I should lie about the error and garner another whopping 15 dollars for the struggling hospitality industry
• (#12) They Were Accused Of Stealing An iPod, So The Boss Stole From Them

  From Redditor /u/WhatsAMaWhoosIt: 

  When I worked at Circuit City, I had an 80 GB iPod that my dad had given me because he no longer needed it (it was practically brand new)... Well, one day it's in my purse that I kept under my counter while I was working. It goes missing. I couldn't understand how it had gotten stolen, it had been one of the slowest days ever. Nonetheless, I was pretty freaking bummed out about it. This happened during a time where the case we kept iPods in was broken and it was terribly easy to to steal them, and many had gone missing.

  Fast-toward a few weeks later, my coworker tells me a [department manager accused me of] stealing iPods and that he got into my purse when I wasn't looking and took it to check the serial number, but never gave it back because I was flipping out and causing a bit of scene walking around asking everyone if they'd seen anyone take it.
• (#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.
• (#14) They Were Accused Of Being Disrespectful After Showing Shoppers How To Juggle

  From Redditor /u/buoyancy_compensator:

  I worked in retail as a cashier at a pet store for a long time, and occasionally when there was nothing going on I would just grab a couple tennis balls and juggle them to keep myself amused. I'm pretty good at it, can do three in all sorts of weird ways without looking at it or thinking about it so I converse with customers perfectly normally when I need to, and most of them find it funny (if I didn't think they would I'd stop before they even made it close to conversation range, and I'd done it long enough that I was a pretty good judge of that kind of thing).

  Cue a day such as that, I'm bored and juggling while I watch the front door. Family comes in with little kids, they laugh at the juggling and come talk to me for a little while about reptiles (and juggling) while I try to teach one of their sons... how to juggle because he asked me to. Good times were had by all; they walk off and do their shopping with their little son trying to juggle the mini tennis balls I gave him.

  Immediately get called into the back by the assistant manager who (with another manager present as a witness I guess) decides he's going to rip me a new one for being disrespectful to the customers by juggling and not giving them my full attention. I respectfully (perhaps sarcastically, no promises) disagree, and when he looks to the other manager in the room to back him up you could just tell the guy was completely uninterested in getting involved, and he basically had nothing bad to say. Assistant manager continues to lay into me a bit more, says he's going to work with me on not being disrespectful like that and if it continued we'd have to have a talk about my employment, I leave.

  Month later, new store manager gets hired, walks to the front with the assistant manager and sees me juggling. Assistant manager gets the look like he's about to rip me a new one, but the store manager laughs, compliments me on my juggling, goes and grabs his own tennis balls and starts juggling too. Ah man, the look on the assistant manager's face... priceless.
• (#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.

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