Mostworkplaceshave a number of guidelines for what is and isn’t appropriate at work. However, humans being humans, folks find all sorts of ways to do truly disgusting things in the workplace. Normally, this is where the beleaguered folks at HR have to step in.Someone asked“Human Resources people, what are someNSFWcomplaints you’ve had to investigate about your workers?” and netizens shared their horror stories. From inappropriate use of office equipment to outlandish and bizarre behavior, get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most shocking examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Mostworkplaceshave a number of guidelines for what is and isn’t appropriate at work. However, humans being humans, folks find all sorts of ways to do truly disgusting things in the workplace. Normally, this is where the beleaguered folks at HR have to step in.Someone asked“Human Resources people, what are someNSFWcomplaints you’ve had to investigate about your workers?” and netizens shared their horror stories. From inappropriate use of office equipment to outlandish and bizarre behavior, get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most shocking examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.
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Around the year 2008, our IT director came into my office and wanted me to see something that he had discovered in our internet surveillance software. A guy in accounting had installed a program on his computer to make it appear that he was on yahoo while he was actually surfing p**n. There were 1000’s of images saved in a hidden folder on his computer. It was an open and shut investigation. Also explains why he took such long bathroom breaks. The dude just about passed out when we confronted him. As I was walking him out of the building, he asked if I was going to tell his fiance. Uh no way dude, but I will share it on Reddit in 2024.
I was the manager. An employee complained that there were condoms in her garbage can. Often. We installed a camera in the hallway outside her office after the third or fourth time. It was her. With different guys. A coworker who knew her husband found one, so she made upba story about people breaking into her office after hours and doing it on her desk. But she was staying late and had at least three guys she admitted to after she got caught.
Someone calling a black employee the N-word and then the manager retaliating against that black employee for “making a big deal out of it”. Several people fired and a generous severance for the victim (who very much wanted to leave the company and had a new job lined up).
Not HR, but I work in a hospital setting and heard about it from HR. The hospital I used to work at had generic ID cards (i.e. they had your name only, not your title). A housekeeper (aka janitor) bought a white doctor’s coat and stitched his name in it to pass off as a doctor. Thankfully he never attempted patient care- he only did it to hit on nurses.Supposedly he was quite successful! He only got found out because a nurse he used to be with caught him with another nurse, and a sexual harassment complaint was made against him to retaliate. I can only imagine HR’s face when they slowly realized that there was no Dr. “John Smith”, only a housekeeper John Smith!
Somewhat NSFW. One of our executives was working abroad when he had a mental breakdown and disappear. The country he was working in was not extremely modernized.Fearing he was taken hostage, we engaged a security service to locate and retrieve him. 4 weeks later they found him almost 300km from where he disappeared. He had started a cult, claimed to be the living embodiment of the damned. He had almost 300 followers.The security company extracted him and he spent 3 months in a mental hospital. It’s almost funny if he wouldn’t have castrated himself and at least 40 of his followers.
A minor, sending everyone video of him having sex with another minor who also worked there. Then an adult manager who decided she should proposition the male minor because of his “performance” in the video.
Employee coming in early and taking a dump on bosses desk.
Not HR but IT. I told this story recently, but it goes like this.We had a break in. It was going to be a week till the new security system was installed, so we hired an off duty cop to watch the place at night.The next day my boss (a nosey a*s) wanted to know what he was doing on the computer all night, so I checked his Internet history.It took be.a.while to figure out what was going on because it was simultaneous, but eventually here’s what I got.He had 2 windows open all night.One, as you might expect, had naked ladies on it.The other was dead bodies. Mostly rotting.Needless to say, he was not asked back.
We had to fire an employee, who worked on an offshore rig, for masturbating too much. He was repeatedly caught and given warnings. It got to be so bad that the cleaning crew said his sheets “felt like potato chips.”.
I was managing a drugstore and was called in because two pharmacy assistants were beating up a pharmacist.Turns out he was having sex with both of them. He was married and was telling both of them he was about to leave his wife for her.1- I was happy they beat him up and not each other.2- Both girls got fired because they instigated the right. At that time in the industry, you kept every pharmacist you got. I understood the decision, but I hated it.
My old job had security go through and check to make sure the offices were locked at the end of the day. So as a result they more than once walked in on people f*****g in offices.The best example was a manager with an engineer from a different department. You could argue it wasn’t too bad since he wasn’t sleeping with someone he had direct oversight over, the only problem being what his department was. He was the manager of HR.Needless to say he was no longer employed there after that.
A man taking advantage of watermelons.
Not human resources but I need to get this out of my brain.I was working in Germany on an IT green card, and so was this dude. He banged on about being from Pakistan but NOT being Pakistani. Like literally every day. He is Indian! Literally every day exclaiming he’s Indian but was raised in Pakistan. But he is NOT Pakistani.Whatever. No one cares.He poured powdered Tang (orange drink) on a plate and ate it with a spoon. Every day.He YouTube’d Britney Spears songs over his desk speakers and sang along with his super high pitched voice.He wore 3-piece suits when then rest of the company wore khakis/jeans/casual clothing.His head was shaped like a volleyball but had no neck.He lived in the West side, but one day announced that I, east sider, could find better places to eat (he was stalking me). He would take the U-bahn to my neighborhood on the weekends.One day, he came to the office with black sesame seeds(Nigella?)He told me that they were a gift from his mother. Because they were for fertility. Because I needed to bare a child(?!?!?!?!??!!?!)The HR woman didn’t even know how to handle everything.
IT - years ago I had a coworker complain that his computer was slow and acting funny…all the telltale signs of a virus/ malware issue. I told him upfront, tell me where you were online and what you did so that I’m not spinning my wheels finding the root cause. He swore he didn’t do anything. Fine. Dug into it and found thousands of farm animal p**n images and videos. Seriously… thousands.
So far, the most NSFW complaint that I dealt with was a male employee who propositioned a female coworker offering his entire paycheck for a hookup. This dude was married so how he would explain a whole two weeks worth of pay gone to the wife, I don’t know.
Tldr: employee mured two people, chopped them up using work knives, and soaked them in acid. Was caught because his roommate turned him in. First month at a new job. Was not HR, but the safety manager. Was asked to collect all knives assigned to the overnight clean-up crew and turn them into HR. After that, numbers were engraved on knives. They were to be assigned and accounted for at the end of the day. Weird, but whatever. The day before the knife collection, one of the overnight employees came in to see if he could collect his paycheck earlier. Sometimes, they showed up a couple of days early. They had not this time. I chatted with this guy on the floor. Nice enough guy. No big deal. I told my boss, HR, that he had come in. It was an offhand comment. Nothing I was concerned about. My boss freaked out, told me if he came in again to call the police. She wouldn’t answer my follow up questions about why. That’s right, she never told me about the mer. Later, the police had me confirm that a knife they had was indeed one of my employers knives and that this employee had access to it. I found out after that that this was not the first time an employee at that place had m***red someone.
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I got 3 good ones, think grocery store setting 1. The store has a public bathroom downstairs that was always destroyed. It was in a bad part of town and dg users would shoot up and st all over the floor, people would ps on the walls, and generally not usable. There were also employee bathrooms upstairs. This particular employee didn’t want to go up the stairs so he would go in the coolers and ps in the drain. One day there was a young girl (18 or 19) that was in the cooler and he didn’t see her but she saw him drop pants to the ankles and ps down the drain. He was let go. 2. One of the employees was a drunk who would constantly talk about how he would get drunk and beat his wife because she would talk back to him. After a while he would complain about how she didn’t have sex with him anymore. Another employee (who is gay and very open about it) told him, “Me and you can go back into the cooler right now and I’ll suck you off.” Then proceeded to offer him sex acts constantly throughout the week. It was brought up with HR with 6 witness statements and we were sure he was gonna be gone. He wasn’t fired. 3. There were 2 overnight employees, one a janitor and one an overnight stocker, that were really good at what they did. They had been both working there for 20+ years and had no complaints against them. One day there were multiple lockers broken into and they pulled security footage on the break rooms and watched all of it. These 2 employees were f***g in the break room for 3 to 4 hours every time they worked together. Our footage only goes back a week or so, so we don’t know how long it has been going on. They still managed to get everything else that was assigned to them on half of a shift.
Not in HR but was a manager at a grocery store. Had to investigate complaints that a cashier was having sex with people in their cars while she was on break. She was :/.
Not HR, but was a manager. Had to let an employee go because he decided to send unsolicited d**k pics to a cashier and tried to solicit her for a threesome with his girlfriend. I think calling HR was her way of declining the invitation.
I worked in the construction industry when this happened. Our call center received a call about an employee (in a company truck) having sex with another man in a public park bathroom. Apparently, some guy took his grandson in there to use the bathroom, saw it, and called it in. We checked his truck’s GPS and sure enough he was going to that park regularly during the workday/after work. There was no actual evidence of wrongdoing and no history of disciplinary action. Per company policy, reasonable personal use of company vehicles was permitted so he wasn’t even really violating any policy. The manager damn near lost his mind when I explained he could only address use of the vehicle lol.To make it that much messier, the employee was married to a woman and their shared son also worked at the same location. Controlling the rumor mill and subsequently updating company policies took much more effort than actually handling the situation.
I work in IT. We had a user with personal p**n on a micro sd drive. She was using her laptop during a meeting when she accidentally clicked on it in file explorer. Thumbnails were turned on so everyone got a good view. I had to search her computer for more. I told them I can just reload it and it will be gone but they wanted more evidence. Luckily I never found any more.
Not HR, but IT. There were only 2 cases I had to report to higher ups. 1. My first IT job was at a MSP (think third party IT). I had to manually apply patches to computers at theaters after hours. It was mostly mindless so I was sitting next to my GF at the time doing it while watching a movie. I was watching the movie when my girlfriend was like “WTF are you doing?” I was remoted into a computer and there was a bunch of gay p**n on the screen. Turns out it was that user’s personal photos they were uploading to their computer. 2. My second week at a job I noticed a user changed their computer desktop to a very famous picture of a migrant family that died trying to cross into the US. The pic is their dead bodies floating in a river. I let my boss know and that we should lock desktops down so people can’t change them.
Not in HR, but I was in orientation with a guy (just he and me) and HR was explaining why you can’t have any p**n on company property. He argued that if he wants to sit in his car and read Hustler at lunchtime, it’s nobody’s business because it’s on his own time and in his car. Surprisingly, he didn’t lose his job, but he got written up three times in 30 days for various infractions, and he was gone.
I was the IT guy HR would call when something internet nsfw oriented would arise. So many people doing so many stupid things on the company internet. Downloading pn was of course the most common but one instance I saved someone their job. Pn ads in the logs appear as if the person visited the site but only for a few seconds and then another. I trained HR to be able to tell the difference when going through their internet reporting software.
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Not in human resources but we recently fired two employees. The male was a Superviser of a specific department, late 50s ish. He had a younger, maybe mid to late 20s female working for him. She wqs terrible, we work oilfield and she knew nothing. So we noticed more and more he wqs out on location doing her job for her while she did god knows what.Hr started getting suspicious after confidential information came to light. Long story short, we work 24/7 with call outs. Anytime this woman was called out in the night, he’d meet her on location. We know this because our trucks are GPS monitored. We’ll he’d get to location, his GPS would “malfunction” ( he’d unplug it). Then it’d turn on hours later. We’ll turns out they were making BS calls for call out and meeting up and having sex on company property, in company vehicles, while being paid for it.
One hour after setup of a web traffic monitoring system, part of our new security tool suite, while checking out the screens and options in the log monitor, boom tons of p**n browseing in the logs from one computer. I tell the IT manager he tells the guys manager and they go talk to him and remind him he can’t do that at work.
Not HR but used to work for an MSP. Ticket gets submitted for email that’s acting up, I find the guys machine in the remote control dashboard and open it to do a preliminary check (connectivity, check for malware, email server accessible, outlook errors in the logs etc) before I call the user and initiate control to troubleshoot etc… In the thumbnail that shows what’s on the screen I see obvious pn… Screenshot verifies it’s an adult site, (and I’m not one to kink shame but it was some hardcore bondage st on some obscure site not like, pnhub) I store it and ping my supervisor and ask what I’m supposed to do He said to contact the company’s IT director, so I did and it was basically “just block it in the firewall” and an ask if I can adjust the firewall to categorically block adult sites etc. never heard if he got reprimanded for it or anything and they ended their contract a few months later, but like most places I worked any kind of pn on a company machine was an immediate resume generating event.
Worked in HR, used to work for a manufacturing company. A guy came into the office and told us that he wanted to be removed from his department because a supervisor was making him feel unsafe. We asked him who the individual was what they had done to them to make them feel unsafe as we needed all the information we could get to start an investigation.Turns out that him and this guy were having sexual relations outside of work and it was going on for several months until his abuser tried to rape him. He show us text messages they had between one another and how his abuser would constantly text him on and off work about how he wanted to f**k him and how he expects to see him at his house etc. Crazy enough while they were on the clock together, his abuser would never interact with him in person and act like they didn’t have any kind of relation at all. Straight up pretended like they were coworkers that just never talked.It was pretty open and shut as the guy confirmed everything and begged us not to release him as he would never do it again. We released him the same day. We had the victim move departments but he resigned a couple of weeks later.
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