Work Politics: What's the worst you've ever experienced?

[Rifter]

Im not going to get into it in detail, but it involved sleeping with other staff members, cocaine, and drinking at work. It was a fun time but oh was there drama and politics like ive never seen before or since.

 

[brianmanahan]

Im not going to get into it in detail, but it involved sleeping with other staff members, cocaine, and drinking at work. It was a fun time but oh was there drama and politics like ive never seen before or since.

go on...

 

[Rifter]

go on...

bullet point version:

- Business owned by crazy frenchman and his wife, like he should be in a asylum crazy
- I Started banging the sales managers daughter, who was working there as a sales assistant
- Sales manager tried to plot against me and get me fired
- Accountant was on my side, helped me avoid some of the attacks as i did a good job and was a hard worker
- the plotting backfired on sales manager and ended up getting the warehouse manager fired instead of me, and i got promoted to warehouse manager, this REALLY pissed her off
- there was more plotting to get me fired, which her daughter and accountant warned me about and we played a cat and mouse game for a year and a half with me maintaining my job by the skin of my teeth staying one step ahead
- This started to really stress me out over time, like alot, i started drinking at lunch, then during work, then all the time.
- Sales managers daughter discovered cocaine for the first time(she was 18), i started doing it with her, at first not at work but after a few months we were both railing and doing rails at work
- then Shit got real at one Christmas party, as in we(warehouse staff) were doing cocaine with the crazy frenchman owner and his wife at the table at the restaurant, things really started to ramp up at this point.
- few weeks later sales manager caught me banging her daughter in the washroom at work during work hours... amazingly this somehow did not get me fired.
- I went completely off the rails(not literally, there was tons of rails...) at this point, figured i was working on borrowed time so why not just let loose, started to not even bother to hide the drinking and coke use and eventually got fired for drug use at work, the crazy frenchman caught me smoking a joint while working.

This was about 15 years ago.

 

[Annisman*]

Holy crap dude

 

[werepossum]

Worst I've ever seen was with my aunt. She was top salesman nationally several years running for a major manufacturer of two-way multi-channel radios (predating cell phones), then her boss was promoted. Her new boss believed that women had no business working and made sure to tell everyone he met. He stretched and cut up her territory until it was several hundred miles long and non-contiguous - basically removed all the cities and every mining operation where she had sold anything - took away every salesperson she had after she trained them, and generally made her life a living hell. Eventually she quit and sued. Her employer stood firmly behind her boss until she agreed to a settlement - then he was fired so fast and so hard that he was gone before she filled out the paperwork. Besides the satisfaction of that, she lost a damned good job and her employer lost their top salesman nationally.

However, most entertaining was at a towing & recovery equipment manufacturer when the president and the finance veep got into a huge fight in the hall. They stormed into their adjacent offices. A minute later the president came storming back out and into the finance director's office. He had FAXed "F*ck you, I quit" to the office next door.

Neither of these really affected me other than the second one keeping me penned in the sales manager's office for several embarrassing moments.

 

[Rumpltzer]

bullet point version:

- Business owned by crazy frenchman and his wife, like he should be in a asylum crazy
- I Started banging the sales managers daughter, who was working there as a sales assistant
- Sales manager tried to plot against me and get me fired
- Accountant was on my side, helped me avoid some of the attacks as i did a good job and was a hard worker
- the plotting backfired on sales manager and ended up getting the warehouse manager fired instead of me, and i got promoted to warehouse manager, this REALLY pissed her off
- there was more plotting to get me fired, which her daughter and accountant warned me about and we played a cat and mouse game for a year and a half with me maintaining my job by the skin of my teeth staying one step ahead
- This started to really stress me out over time, like alot, i started drinking at lunch, then during work, then all the time.
- Sales managers daughter discovered cocaine for the first time(she was 18), i started doing it with her, at first not at work but after a few months we were both railing and doing rails at work
- then Shit got real at one Christmas party, as in we(warehouse staff) were doing cocaine with the crazy frenchman owner and his wife at the table at the restaurant, things really started to ramp up at this point.
- few weeks later sales manager caught me banging her daughter in the washroom at work during work hours... amazingly this somehow did not get me fired.
- I went completely off the rails(not literally, there was tons of rails...) at this point, figured i was working on borrowed time so why not just let loose, started to not even bother to hide the drinking and coke use and eventually got fired for drug use at work, the crazy frenchman caught me smoking a joint while working.

This was about 15 years ago.

pics of daughter?

 

[brianmanahan]

bullet point version:

- Business owned by crazy frenchman and his wife, like he should be in a asylum crazy
- I Started banging the sales managers daughter, who was working there as a sales assistant
- Sales manager tried to plot against me and get me fired
- Accountant was on my side, helped me avoid some of the attacks as i did a good job and was a hard worker
- the plotting backfired on sales manager and ended up getting the warehouse manager fired instead of me, and i got promoted to warehouse manager, this REALLY pissed her off
- there was more plotting to get me fired, which her daughter and accountant warned me about and we played a cat and mouse game for a year and a half with me maintaining my job by the skin of my teeth staying one step ahead
- This started to really stress me out over time, like alot, i started drinking at lunch, then during work, then all the time.
- Sales managers daughter discovered cocaine for the first time(she was 18), i started doing it with her, at first not at work but after a few months we were both railing and doing rails at work
- then Shit got real at one Christmas party, as in we(warehouse staff) were doing cocaine with the crazy frenchman owner and his wife at the table at the restaurant, things really started to ramp up at this point.
- few weeks later sales manager caught me banging her daughter in the washroom at work during work hours... amazingly this somehow did not get me fired.
- I went completely off the rails(not literally, there was tons of rails...) at this point, figured i was working on borrowed time so why not just let loose, started to not even bother to hide the drinking and coke use and eventually got fired for drug use at work, the crazy frenchman caught me smoking a joint while working.

This was about 15 years ago.

lol man you weren't kidding

reading this felt like %50 sopranos, %50 soap opera, %50 game of thrones

 

[JEDIYoda]

I can remember my early days as a warp core engineer. I was just brought on board and one of the other engineers left one on of the warp core conduits in safe mode instead of activation mode. We were attacked by 3 Romulan warbirds. We tried to go to warp and nothing happened. .......you can guess the end of the story.......well here I am.

 

[Imp]

Not personally, but I consumed the gossip quite happily.

At one job, there was a huge divide into 2 or 3 cliques. One time, the bosom buddy of the director yelled at a secretary to make her collapse and have a full blown panic attack. Needed a medical professional to check her out, don't remember if 911 was involved. That led to a day-long company team building exercise.

At another job, the secretaries on the same floor had some fucked up new versus old "rivalry." According to the young'uns, the old ones were afraid their jobs were being usurped. Then there was drama and it turned into a threesome of rivalries when the young'uns started shit between themselves.

The latter place was messed up. There were many other stories of harassment and high turnover. A few people I knew had been on or went on stress leave during my time there. One of them went on stress leave and never came back -- by which I mean he/she offed him/herself.

 

[OutHouse]

Not personally, but I consumed the gossip quite happily.

At one job, there was a huge divide into 2 or 3 cliques. One time, the bosom buddy of the director yelled at a secretary to make her collapse and have a full blown panic attack. Needed a medical professional to check her out, don't remember if 911 was involved. That led to a day-long company team building exercise.

At another job, the secretaries on the same floor had some fucked up new versus old "rivalry." According to the young'uns, the old ones were afraid their jobs were being usurped. Then there was drama and it turned into a threesome of rivalries when the young'uns started shit between themselves.

The latter place was messed up. There were many other stories of harassment and high turnover. A few people I knew had been on or went on stress leave during my time there. One of them went on stress leave and never came back -- by which I mean he/she offed him/herself.

what kind of jobs were these.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

bullet point version:

- Business owned by crazy frenchman and his wife, like he should be in a asylum crazy
- I Started banging the sales managers daughter, who was working there as a sales assistant
- Sales manager tried to plot against me and get me fired
- Accountant was on my side, helped me avoid some of the attacks as i did a good job and was a hard worker
- the plotting backfired on sales manager and ended up getting the warehouse manager fired instead of me, and i got promoted to warehouse manager, this REALLY pissed her off
- there was more plotting to get me fired, which her daughter and accountant warned me about and we played a cat and mouse game for a year and a half with me maintaining my job by the skin of my teeth staying one step ahead
- This started to really stress me out over time, like alot, i started drinking at lunch, then during work, then all the time.
- Sales managers daughter discovered cocaine for the first time(she was 18), i started doing it with her, at first not at work but after a few months we were both railing and doing rails at work
- then Shit got real at one Christmas party, as in we(warehouse staff) were doing cocaine with the crazy frenchman owner and his wife at the table at the restaurant, things really started to ramp up at this point.
- few weeks later sales manager caught me banging her daughter in the washroom at work during work hours... amazingly this somehow did not get me fired.
- I went completely off the rails(not literally, there was tons of rails...) at this point, figured i was working on borrowed time so why not just let loose, started to not even bother to hide the drinking and coke use and eventually got fired for drug use at work, the crazy frenchman caught me smoking a joint while working.

This was about 15 years ago.

Now that's a story.