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• (#4) Not A Dog Person

  From Reddit user /u/neverbelieveagain:

  I work in a dog grooming salon. My coworker "A" is a self-professed "cat person". She doesn't like our customers, she doesn't like most dogs. She complains if she's booked dogs, she complains if she isn't booked dogs. She somehow never managed to commission, and complains about that too.

  She never helps clean, and when I close with her she will disappear because at 8:30pm apparently she has to take a twenty minute poop in the bathroom.

  She claims to be allergic to most foods but still eats McDonalds and Burger King. She allegedly has Celiac's disease but has never been tested. She also is allergic to cats, flowers, latex, almost anything. Despite claiming to be an avid Gardner the one time a coworker got flowers she insisted they be removed from our work area because she was allergic. Same when another coworker received balloons.

  She has said on more than one occasion she likes to find out people's weaknesses and pick at them. One of my coworker's lives with her in-laws as both of them have student debt they are very close to paying off. A will constantly add small digs at her like "Not that you would know, it's not like you have to pay rent or a mortgage like real adults."

  Everyone complains about her but our one manager has worked with her since the beginning and clearly doesn't feel comfortable talking to her, and our other manager is bffs with her husband.

  She is good at her job, and even deals with difficult dogs well. She just has such a shit personality and is so negative about everything.
• (#17) Drugs At Work

  From Reddit user /u/LiterallyWhiteBread:

  I had a coworker offer me cocaine while I was working with a costumer in the front of the shop.

  That same day, she threatened me with a knife for changing the radio station, and then immediately tried to sell me on marijuana as a "miracle cure-all".

  She then promptly quit in favor of a website that gave her gift cards in exchange for taking surveys.

  All in the same day.
• (#11) Dispensed Illegal Medical Supplies

  From Reddit user /u/thelittleblueones:

  This happened a few years back. I'm a pharmacist in a rural area. Being in a rural area, it is sometimes difficult to hire pharmacy technicians who are both good at the job and willing to work for what my company pays. This shallow applicant pool led us to hiring Sharon.

  • Sharon was in her mid-40s, giving her about 20 years on me. She had a problem accepting my authority, reminding me almost daily how she had a daughter a year older than me. When I asked Sharon to do something she didn't want to do, she would become temporarily deaf and very engrossed in whatever activity she wanted to do. When I complained to the pharmacy manager he promised to talk to her every time... and then never did because he was a spineless, weasely thief severely lacking in testicular fortitude (and ended up getting fired for those reasons further down the line).
  • Sharon was also under 5 feet tall. To compensate for this, she brought a used, unwashed pair of grill tongs to use as a grabber for items she couldn't reach. She couldn't reach about half the items on the shelf. She filled about 15 prescriptions and got grease all over the stock bottles before I noticed and made her go wash the tongs.
  • Being a middle aged woman, she was prone to hot flashes. I am usually cold at room temperature and wear sweaters to work in summer to compensate for the AC. Sharon got the brilliant idea to heat a bag of rice in the microwave and put it on the thermostat to force the AC to come on, which I suspect was out of spite as much as for her comfort. One day, she set the timer to 10 minutes and fell asleep in the break room (more on that later). The entire store smelled like burnt rice for hours. The store manager went nuclear.
  • When I was working with Sharon, customers would often assume she was the pharmacist ask her questions that only a pharmacist could answer. She would attempt to perform patient consultations, which is illegal in my state, then wear her ass on her shoulders the rest of the day after I jumped in and corrected her.
  • On a few other occasions, she dispensed emergency supplies to patients under a floater pharmacist's login without asking him - also illegal. One of the emergency supplies was for a drug in an unbreakable package, which she broke, rendering it unsellable and damaging ~$400 of product.
  • She and her commonlaw husband would beat the shit out of each other and she would come in with bruises in conspicuous places. When they broke up, she closed out all his prescriptions in our computer system, which ended up being a pain in my ass more than his because I had to fix all of it.
  • Skimming over the rest of the petty bullshit, including multiple absences and tardies (only on days she worked with me), what finally ended her employment was smoking meth in her vehicle in the parking lot on her lunch break. We didn't catch her in the act, but she came back obviously high on something and unable to control her movements. Loss prevention got involved. Rather than terminating her employment, she was put on a program requiring her to check in to see if she had to be drug tested daily. Failure to do so meant automatic termination. Shortly after she was arrested for domestic violence with the commonlaw (ex?)husband, meaning she didn't check in the following day... Bye bye Sharon, and good fucking riddance.
• (#13) Hated Working With Others

  From Reddit user /u/SophiaTPetrillo:

  I worked with a middle aged woman who treated all her job duties as her personal fiefdom -- problem being, she sucked at her job and constantly needed help completing her assignments. Whenever I was assigned to assist her, she would get angry and possessive of her work, demanding that everything be done to her (sub) standards and refusing to relinquish tasks to the point that management was forced to intervene. I mostly laughed off her behavior. Eventually I was promoted -- upsetting her to no end -- and she accused my (male) boss of misogyny (ignoring the fact that this multi-million dollar firm was helmed by a woman) and implied that I didn't deserve the position, which pissed me off. Somehow, she kept her job. At this point our relationship had devolved into a slow simmering feud interspersed with occasional arguments -- me taking great pleasure in periodically finishing her work for her and her talking an insane amount of shit about me to my coworkers (which of course immediately got back to me).

  However, I eventually won the feud through the simple act of helping her carry a box of documents to her car. You see, she occasionally dropped the afternoon mailings off at the post office and for whatever reason that day there was a mountain of mail. Her being a bit long in the tooth, she asked me if I would carry the box to her car, which I of course did. When she popped open her car door, a huge waft of skunky-ass weed stank hit me. It smelled like she had at least an ounce of some dank shit in her glove box. I smoke a lot of weed but you couldn't really tell at the time because of my white collar facade (you can definitely tell these days because I look like the eponymous FLORIDA MAN, which is ok because I live in Florida), so when I looked this woman in the face and said "wow, don't get pulled over on the way home or I'll have to do all your work," her jaw literally dropped. Now, I would never have turned her in, but she didn't know that, so until I quit that job with malicious intent (another story for another thread), I didn't have any more problems with her.
• (#6) Cleaning House

  From Reddit user /u/RealFunnyTalk:

  Here's a story of 4 people being fired in one day for different reasons, a 5th unknown stealing money, and my 17 year old self wondering how did I get myself here?

  Worked at a family owned fast food Italian place. Nice job, easy work, free food, decent hours, not bad for 17 year old high schooler.

  I check the schedule forwho I'm working with tomorrow and its Manager A and co-worker A that then switch shifts (I was across two shifts, after lunch and closing) with Manager B and Co-worker B. They're all decent I suppose, though one blatantly did hour fraud (came in at 830, entered time as 8).

  Shift goes to switch so and the Bs and As brief each other on what's happening. Owner and Manager C (who's the best one, no illegal stuff) come in and tell them all to pack up and leave. Turns The As were in a relationship and were stealing money to fuel her pill addiction. The Bs were caught fucking in the office (manager was married) plus Bs hour fraud and were also fired. This all happens as I'm cleaning a table bewildered.

  Thinking his stealing issues were over, owner leaves and Manager C calls employees to fill in for tomorrow's vacancies.

  Turns out, someone ELSE steals from the register the next day and we're all told to submit to a lie detector test. Manager C comes up to me and says "RealFunnyTalk, we're closing so you don't have to come in anymore." "But what about the lie detector test?" "Even if you told me you did it, I wouldn't believe you. You're fine." That last part was nice (I didn't steal it by the way).

  TL;DR second job ever and I see 4 people get fired at once for different stuff, a 5th also stealing.
• (#19) Their Way Or No Way

  From a deleted Reddit user:

  She was my boss and she is the most toxic employee I've ever witnessed. I think she's just kind of a terrible person in general actually, but she considers me her best friend. I am just so laid back, that I don't get visibly distressed over her bullshit, but I personally think she's manipulative, psychotic etc...

  She's been at the company for 24 years so she thinks she can get away with anything she does. She's walked out crying, come back and handed in her resignation multiple times, and the owner of the company always smoothes things over between her and the general manager (the person with whom she has the most conflict). Before he was hired, she thought she would have his job. When he first came, he made some mistakes and supposedly she was given a "directive" by the owner to "teach him (the GM) how to do his job" so she's taken that and run with it. She talks down to GM, calls him a son of a bitch, fights him on decisions, challenges his authority... you name it.

  Controlling isn't even the right word. Everything had to be done her way or no way. I had a meeting once on a project without her and she came in my office and absolutely blasted me for leaving her out of it and now I've "created confusion" and she loved to say either people included her in absolutely every step/decision on a project or she was "out of it". Basically, either she was in control or she wanted nothing to do with it. She had to be copied on every single email. Every decision had to be run by her first. Then she loved to complain that nothing got done without her, and why can't anyone just "take care of things" without having to interrupt her.

  She didn't reward initiative at all. In fact if I did take initiative on things, she'd find a way to make it look like a mistake. "Well while you were busy doing that, this wasn't getting done". We had a pre-project meeting once where we setting out the beginning stages and I took the initiative to reach out to some vendors to let them know we'd started work on the project and could they go ahead and start pulling together X, Y, Z assets? When I went and told her I'd done it, she was completely nonplussed and then turned the conversation around into how nothing I do gets done fast enough and just the other week I spent 2 hours on something that should've taken 30 minutes (her bs opinion).

  She loved the idea of a "need-to-know" basis. I'd get emails forwarded that had information deleted out of them because I might get confused if I "knew too much". I also witnessed other people doing their jobs and coming to her with an anomaly, like a mystery account code, and her response was to say that nobody was told what it was for because they "didn't need to know". She believed job security was being the only person that knew how to perform certain functions in our system, and she refused to train anyone how to do anything that she didn't absolutely have to. To this day, I have no idea how to run the reports I need.

  She's very very manipulative & I've gotten to the point that I don't believe anything she says. One day I came in to work and she was in major bitch mode. Had a list of items that needed to be done by EOD, a list that included some very involved projects and a more realistic timeline for getting the work done was like 3 days. But I hammered it out and got it all done in one day, which made her really happy. Then she launches into a story about going to the humane society over the weekend and feeling "uncomfortable" with the questions they were asking about her home life, etc. Her son has downs syndrome and she said at a certain point he refused to pet the potential dog anymore because he felt uncomfortable. So for a week she's going back and forth with this lady from the humane society, throwing her job title and salary around using them as reasons her household is stable enough to adopt this dog. In the end they were denied and she blew like a geyser. She sent a particularly nasty email to the humane society volunteer about how she'd never consider adopting from them again and on and on, then went on social media and posted all over about the discrimination she witnessed because her son has downs syndrome and even got the national pet store involved. As a side note, I was reading some reviews of this particular humane society and lots of people had similar complaints about being denied animals; I guess they are very stringent in their vetting process. If I was trying to adopt an animal and had read those reviews in advance, I never would've even bothered. But anyway, I couldn't help but see the hypocrisy in her telling me nothing I did ever got done fast enough, yet she had time to email this lady about a dog multiple times and go online to post all over social media about it.

  She is incredible threatened by other women. She is the only female on the "directors" team and is very proud of that fact. About a year ago another female asked to join what was then the "leadership" team and when they met to consider adding this other female, my boss threw a fit. Wanted to know what purpose she would serve, and how much other work was now not going to get done because she would be spending her time in leadership meetings instead of leading her team and on and on. They ended up quietly adding the other female and included her name in the leadership email group. My boss would purposely address emails to the individual members of the leadership team and omit the newly added female employee. Then, she would "tattle" on the same employee and point out all the mistakes being made in her department to the GM. Eventually the "leadership" group became the "directors" team and guess which employee was not made a director?

  This has gotten long, but these are some of the highlights of working for this nutcase. I have been looking for a new job for 4 months, wish me luck, haha.

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