Most Corrupt Things Employees Have Witnessed Their Bosses Do

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Aug 29, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

This fun AskReddit thread has employees disclosing the most corrupt things that they've ever witnessed their bosses do. The reality is that there are far too many people that are employed and put in positions of power within companies, that really never should've been put in their positions in the first place. Maybe this AskReddit thread will serve to make you feel a bit better about the times that you had to put up with a wildly delusional, downright maniacal boss during your career. To keep the boss drama train rolling check out this recent post about an unreasonable boss who threatened a deli guy's job, so he basically just said "okay."

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    Font - Reddittoxin · 5h 1 Award I've had a couple that try to pressure you to work off the clock, without actually asking you to do so in order not to get sued. Suckered some people into doing it, if they complained after the fact they got canned. And by that I mean they got all hours cut until they were forced to quit so they couldn't file for unemployment. I just made it clear I wasnt playing their games in the first place. First time they tried me I was like "isnt that working off the clock?"
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    Font - Chillay_90 OP · 5h I work underground in the mines. One place started having, what the workers found out later, was asbestos type rock in the ore. The company took samples of it and then said it's kind of like asbestos, but it's not old enough to harm you. Later after a bit of more concern from the workers, it was found out that the sample they took came back as inconclusive due to something else. They lied and allowed their workforce exposure to asbestos. I quit after that and found work
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    Font - Mm_Donut · 4h I quit on a former employer once I realized that he had misrepresented how the company was doing and what I would be doing. There is "spinning" and then there is outright lying. Fast forward 4 years later, after that company collapsed he was "launching a startup", reached out to a lot of people on the development team, to engage them to build his e-commerce website. He stiffed them all, none of them ever got paid. G Reply 4 186 3 ...
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    Font - SeanShawnShaunson · 5h Manager use to take all of the servers credit card tips. After a couple of months I opened my mouth about it and let the other servers know. Manager didn't expect me to see the pay stubs. It would say that the exact amount of credit card tips would all be taken out for unspecified reasons in each employees check. Eventually his three resteraunts closed down and he moved back to Cuba where he owns two other resteraunts. G Reply 1 142 3 ...
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    Font - twistedlemon732 · 4h A few years ago I was working/living at a McDonald's in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The area manager decided to "save" the store so she became very... involved... in its day to day micromanagement. One payday morning she made an announcement that, because everyone kept coming in asking for their checks and bothering her, she would be giving them to us when she felt we deserved them. I called the local Department of Labor, who referred me to the state, who referred me back t
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    Font - Disposable70· 3h Hide political contributions, I was CFO and warned the board that this was illegal, I resigned over it. A few months the SEC auditor caught it and they were heavily fined, they blamed me for ratting on them. I didn't, but I suspect that one of my subordinates did for a reward, good for him. G Reply 1 86 3 ...
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    Font - kmnlpoiu · 3h When I was in college, I worked for a company that imported clothes from some Asian countries (don't remember which ones). The company would import the clothes, remove the tags that indicated the country of origin, and replace those with "Made in America" tags. I knew which department stores these would go to, but I've forgotten; otherwise, l'd list the companies. One day, I went to work, and I noticed that the warehouse was almost empty. Only a few of us were there. I asked
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    Font - Rustee_nail · 3h I was working at a small brewery / bar, and caught the owner dipping into the tip jar at the end of big nights. It was a new place that just opened and was kind of struggling during the off season. We literally had a staff of two bartenders and the owners (husband and wife), so the bar staff would pool and split that days tips. Come to find out that he was taking a cut of the tips because "he worked there to0". When I confronted him, I explained that its actually a violat
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    Font - Idontgetitbrah · 3h I was a mechanic that found out that the company was not letting me fix customers cars that had oil leaks when the customers had paid for a 200k mile warranty. The manager would tell the service writer to say that the warranty company declined it and eventually started making me take a photo to him so that he could tell me that the leak wasn't bad enough to fix. The customer paid for a warranty and the company wasn't holding up their end of the deal because it was cost
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    Rectangle - ShadowWolfee_34• 3h Fudging the payroll, docking hours worked, cheating with vacation time and messing up taxes. Good thing I don't work there anymore! G Reply 4 21 3 ...
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    Rectangle - optoph · 3h $ 1 Award At the first company I worked at the general manager had all his personal expenses paid by the company. His wife also had a company credit card and was paid a salary but she didn't work. The company paid for things like their groceries, house mortgage, car payments and family vacations. The kicker is he wasn't the owner of the company. He had a creative accountant that hid these expenses but the owners became suspicious and they hired an auditor. It took them ab
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    Font - totspur1982 · 3h Had a job out of college selling yellow pages advertising. A big part of the job was just renewing the old adds in the book and we had to call each business to have them renew their ad. But as the yellow pages book became more and more obsolete more customers would cancel their ads. So the company changed the policy of having us call each business and instead put in a policy that any customer who didn't specifically call to cancel would be auto renewed. Then they would pu
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    Font - Outside_Afternoon_46 · 2h When I was in Vietnam, I worked in a health-related sector for a short time. I didn't see it, but I heard about it the next day: After a minor scooter accident, a man is sent to a public hospital. He has spinal edema, which a steroid injection can easily alleviate. Because he is cash-strapped, the medical staff refuses to treat him (the unofficial rule is that care is prioritized according to money/wealth).lt is too late when his family comes with money, and he i
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    Font - Oh-Oh-Ophelia • 3h The owner of a fast food restaurant I worked for moved the measuring tape when the health department person was there measuring whether or not the rubber safety flooring was the right dimensions around the play structure. A G Reply ↑ 10 3
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    Font - Risingjackal · 3h I was working in a lab and observed that we were charging for chem7 and chem 14 and just running the chem14 that covers everything in the chem 7. Basically charging the insurance company and patient for labs that were only done once. There was other stuff I noticed like this but I always felt like that was bad insurance fraud. Fortunately the place got sold. Just hope they stopped doing that crap. 6 Reply 1 14 3 ...
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    Font - colonelsmoothie · 2h The CEO was using company money to fund his lavish lifestyle. It went on for a long time because hey, there's a fine line between using a private jet because you need to travel to business meetings on time vs. using it for your own personal enjoyment. All the employees knew about it so it was no surprise when he was finally forced to step down by the shareholders once one of the larger ones complained about it publicly. G Reply ...
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    Rectangle - TheNotoriousFAP • 2h Owner would sell power coating equipment as "Made in America" even though every individual component was ordered off Alibaba. G Reply
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    Font - 42spuuns · 2h Growing up my father always told me to save my pay stubs and time receipts. I ended up working a job in my early 20 's at an airport moving cars. I get my paycheck one day and i realize that it's not right. So i do a little digging, and a lot of math, and i figure out that the company was taking hours from me. I ask around and it turns out that they were taking hours from literally everyone at the job site. After doing more math we figured out that over the six months we all
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    Font - Deitaphobia · 1h I got a call from a car rental company and few months after I left a job asking when I was going to pay for the damages to my rental car. After a few phone calls, I was able to determine that my company credit card had never been canceled and my boss had used it to rent a car in my name for another employee that hit a deer outside of area the car was limited to. 6 Reply 1 Vote ..
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    Font - mannyfresh555· 2h Used to work at a contractor for Carvana. The facility wasn't up to OSHA standards and they had a slew of illegals working there paid under the table. They suspended me because they said I said something controversial and someone overhead me and didn't feel comfortable around me. They called me right when my suspension was about to be up telling me I couldn't go back to work at that facility and that I was welcome to go to another one 3 hours away. I couldn't do that bec
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    Font - mks113 · 3h I work in nuclear power and I've never seen management do anything that I would consider "corrupt". I've seen a couple technical decisions where managers overruled engineers for financial reasons - and in those cases it always ended up with the "we'll save time and money" costing a whole lot more money in the end! - G Reply 1 4
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    Rectangle - Loudlyjoyful · 1h I work at Walmart. We had a ps5 come in and one of the managers hid it in the 99 room so he could buy it when he got off. G Reply ...
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