'I am pretty sure my CEO has been stealing money': 30+ Employees and students spill the juicy dramas people can't stop talking about

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 28, 2023 3:00 PM EST

No workplace or school is without some drama, and we've got our popcorn buckets ready as we read these stories. 

Gossipy places aren't always the nicest to work at, but there will be some great stories. A little bit of drama can spice up any boring Thursday afternoon. Whether it's two coworkers who can't agree on the heat, or the entire office waiting for someone to have a meeting with HR, it certainly breaks up the monotony. 

I'm fascinated with the story of the office where no one could agree on the lighting situation. It seems like a dramatic shift: the early morning folks want minimal light, while the late-comers want that blinding sun in their faces to wake up and start the day. But this feud has yet to lighten up: instead, the office is pranking each other! At least if they can't agree on the issue, they're sort of trying to find alternatives. 

Other people shared the inner workings of their own companies or schools, and they are some juicy stories (as requested by the OP, u/mooooommmmmmmmmm). 

You can check out all of these hilarious stories below. Then, check out this person's update of what happened when they refused to mow their demanding neighbor's yard. 

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  • 01
    'Someone left the freezer door open and thawed out 100 frozen pizzas. We all know it was you, Jeremy.'
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  • 02
    What tender and juicy drama is going on at your school/workplace?
    via u/mooooommmmmmmmmm
  • 03
    mrsphukov We aren't allowed to decorate our cubicles for Halloween until Monday according to HR's email. However, they have had their decorations and wreaths on their doors for at least a week now.
    via u/mrsphukov
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    thecountessofdevon. A teacher at our school was constantly being reported by her assistant for grossly and absurdly exaggerated offenses, because the assistant doesn't like the teacher she's been assigned to this year. The teacher is new to our school. The assistant is related to a high-up administrator, and has already been moved several times. Administration kept writing her up (the teacher), despite her protests that the complaints were absurd,
    via u/thecountessofdevon
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    and kept requesting this assistant be switched with another. Teacher finally had enough and quit. Admin spreads around the rumor that the teacher had to leave her job for "mental health reasons". True story.
    via u/thecountessofdevon
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    ThrowAwayIdiot27. Someone left the freezer door open and thawed out 100 frozen pizzas. We all know it was you, Jeremy.
    via u/ThrowAwayIdiot27
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    Irian Jaya One co-worker had a bunch of cash stolen from her purse. Everyone knows who did it. Not only was she the only one not in attendance at a meeting when the money went missing, but she suddenly started avoiding my co-worker when they had been friends before that. Also, she would have to know exactly where the purse was stored in order to sneak in and back before being noticed. Now no one in the office is talking to the alleged thief. That's our version of office justice since management
    via u/Irian Jaya
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    queenprotea Coworker had a meltdown and put in her two weeks notice. Started kicking and throwing . Why? Someone changed the outfits on the mannequins she had dressed the previous day. Yikes.
    via u/queenprotea
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    Derpicusss A math cheating ring got busted. They had several group texts set up and one person would get answers from one group and spread it to the others. They're looking at suspending and failing something like 50 people. In their senior year too.
    via u/Derpicusss
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    alcuin89 Over in customer service, Brenda is complaining about being too hot and throws a tantrum every time someone touches the thermostat. Brad on the other hand (because he's cold and fed up of Brenda's ) keeps with her and changing the thermostat.
    via u/alcuin89
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    hmmimthinking well, I am pretty sure my CEO has been stealing money from our company. I am a textile designer and we have factories in India and China. No one wants to ship our product because they haven't been paid, personally I haven't gotten a raise in 3yrs. All the while the CEO is driving a Bently and just purchased a new $2+million dollar home.
    via u/hmmimthinking
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    He is constantly getting angry calls from our factories who some he owes Millions of dollars to (7mil to one in particular) and I am pretty sure if he went to China he would be legally detained bc of how much he owes people. A lot of which fly to our office here in the states and wait for him for meetings, and he ducks out the back door like a coward. One day he even drove an old truck to work so no one would know he was here.
    via u/hmmimthinking
  • 13
    traumamamba We thought the coffee pot was dirty. We thought the coffee was bad. We got new creamer and then new sugar. Hours have been spent trying to figure out what's wrong with our coffee. It's the water. The water.
    via u/traumamamba
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    + [deleted] A bloke in my office is going to be on Robot Wars and now I'm trying to be his friend.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 15
    ronfromthecia A person in our student council made a petition to allow boys to have any hairstyle they want. He got like 300 signatures out of a school of 1000 but the Principe voided the petition and forced him to resign from the council.
    via u/ronfromthecia
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    bosstrasized There are 2 teachers in the office who sit side by side eachother passively fighting over a computer. Its been this way for 6 months now. There are other computers and seats available but neither one will budge. The way it works is one comes in first, he starts using the computer and when the second one comes in a bit after, he'll just sit right next to the first dude really close. The convo usually goes something like this:
    via u/bosstrasized
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    "Are you done?" "No not yet...I might be a while". "Ah thats cool....I've got time" "Ok cool..."
    via u/bosstrasized
  • 18
    PRINGLE Cotton MouthCafe At my graphic design school there are a couple of people who are constantly falsely accusing each other of plagiarism. It has gotten so bad that our professor has had to talk to the whole program about it.
    via u/Cotton MouthCafe
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    Portarossa One of the higher-ups in a writers' forum I frequent went on a rant about a week ago about someone who stole the plot of their most recent story, straight-up calling them out in public. It's not true -- not even close, except for a few initial details; I skimmed them both, and it doesn't hold up -- but it came out that the person who wrote the new book is also a forum member who hadn't previously revealed her pen name.
    via u/Portarossa
  • 20
    Half the people are sticking with the higher- up, and the other half are accusing her of being a bully over nothing (romance novels tend not to have particularly innovative plots, after all). It's a real 1.
    via u/Portarossa
  • 21
    Ganglebot Everyone is one department, because any request for services results in their | at request for a 2-3 week strategic direction plan. These should be simple 1-2 hour jobs. Another department was just caught using an outside vendor to avoid the department in question, and the coldwar just got SPICY!
    via u/Ganglebot
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    sweetrhymepurereason Cops came in looking for one of our coworkers. Nobody is friends with him so we have no way to know what's going on. Assumptions are running wild right now. Edit: All of your ideas are way more exciting than ours. We were thinking like, family emergency, but I like underground fight club better. I'm gonna throw that one out tomorrow and see if anyone bites.
    via u/sweetrhymepurereason
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    Greasy Bud nothing really, but i try to say as few words as possible every day. so far my record is 4, hoping for three today. currently sitting at 1 word, danm receptionist happened to see me coming in, so i had to give her a "morning!" but im hoping a nice "see ya" at 430 will polish off my new record..
    via u/Greasy Bud
  • 24
    sanchower Without going into any specifics, we rolled out a major update to our software, it has an obvious bug, and our customers are I. We had assurances from the vendor that it would be fixed before go-live, and it wasn't. People might get fired and/or sued over this.
    via u/sanchower
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    LikeChicken A brewing cold war between our project management organization and our software architects concerning who has authority over the process by which software systems are built. Edit: For the record, I am an architect. These comments are giving me fuel to support the cause. I appreciate that.
    via u/LikeChicken
  • 26
    RynOfHouse Black Last person to get to the daily meeting on Thursday has to buy doughnuts for the office on Friday. The drama is next level!
    via u/RynOfHouse Black
  • 27
    Synapse Forest I work for a very prominent doctor in my city, who has a solo practice. His wife is the practice manager. They hired a cute blonde RN in her early 30s (married) to work part time. I work next to her and she tells me everything. Doctor proceeds to hit on her in person, via intraoffice instant messaging, and via text. The latter two methods caused the wife to take notice. Instead of apologizing for extreme discomfort this caused
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    the nurse, the wife progressively and passive aggressively pushes her out of the practice by gradually reducing her hours, making her keep track of everything she does minute by minute, and generally making her work environment She's gone now. It worked.
    via u/Synapse
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    pm_me_your_zippers. Nothing too bad. We're chronically understaffed so I'm boycotting some work on purpose. Like months behind a few projects. They expect me to work massive amounts of overtime to catch up but I refuse (was promised an assistant back in April. And again in July. And last month... Out of to give.
    via u/pm_me_your_zippers
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    itsfish20 The new girl in CS (Customer Service) just kinda joined the other early to mid 20's something ladies at lunch one day without being invited and they are all semi nice so it was no big deal. Well I guess new girl is a bit of stirrer and has a been talking to other people about ladies in the group. I am so excited to see where this goes!
    via u/itsfish20
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    EuphioMachine A woman at my work is lying about having cancer. She comes up with new sicknesses and calls out all the time. She told us she's pregnant with twins and sent us an ultrasound picture. We searched "pregnant twins ultrasound" on Google and it was on the first page. It goes so much deeper than this too. She would send pictures of herself "dead on the hospital table" from the "nurse" (using her phone) to my direct manager. We don't know what to do. Our bosses are telling us to fire her,
    via u/EuphioMachine
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    woodlandolive I just started my current job almost two months ago - beginning of September. Since then, we've had the head of marketing leave his position. Come to find out, he was not only in charge of much of the company's financing, but also the owner's. He has been stealing money - over $100,000 - from the owner. Opening credit lines in his name, draining bank accounts, etc. Not sure how long it's been going on. But I did find out that the same guy was in jail from '94-'98 for embezzling ove
    via u/woodlandolive
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    Not sure why the they hired him here in the first place (back in 2003) knowing this... I work IT so I've had to spend my time going through his emails and his personal computer and shutting down his access to anything and everything. Fun stuff to jump into.
    via u/woodlandolive
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    CBK2K Recently, everyone taking AP Economics at my high school answered 'a' on every question of a multiple choice test to get a curve that gave each of them a 100%(Lawful evil amirite). Predictably, administration cancelled the test. Both classes received lectures about work ethic instead of economics the next day. Edit: chaotic Edit: ok fine back to lawful evil. Make up your minds already.
    via u/CBK2K
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    StayGoldBronyBoy I made a complaint to my boss that our only manager has been doing job. Everybody a was on my side, until she had a breakdown and claimed she was "ganged up on". Now, everybody is trying to place the blame on me.
    via u/StayGoldBronyBoy
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    alexeggbird I work in a hostel in Amsterdam. It's a quick turn around because we hire travelers who are passing through and we let them work for there bed, changing bed sheets and cleaning toilets. People usually stay a couple months. There's this new guy who everyone loves but I am growing more and more suspicious of him. Things keep going missing in the rooms that he cleans. Started off small. Earphones, sunglasses, hats. Last week 150 pounds was stolen and two days later he asked me the excha
    via u/alexeggbird
  • 37
    told me that he is traveling on his brothers passport using a fake name and was kicked out of his parents house for stealing. I don't know who to turn to. I like the guy but we can't have a thief working in the building. I've got lots of juicy story's we get some crazy characters coming through.
    via u/alexeggbird
  • 38
    Casually Efficient recently, 3/4 of the hr staff were either fired or quit within a week. In the film industry, and I at least am very intrigued.
    via u/Casually Efficient
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    DiDalt I work with documents from a short-wall cubical. I get to my office at around 6AM. My boss shows up around 5:30AM. It's just us for the first few hours of the day. We prefer the lights off because we have windows producing natural light when the sun comes up. The lights in the office are too bright and bother us. Every single day, this guy (we'll call him Ron) shows up and turns on all the lights in the office. Ron will even turn on the lights in rooms with no one in it. We've told him th
    via u/DiDalt
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    Ron flips out and says we have no authority over the lighting in this area and that OSHA is on his side. He then calls up the legal team and demands for an OSHA representative to be sent to check for the lighting levels in the office. Someone came out and said it's fine. Ron demands another test. This time they send a team of people to check the light levels and try to come up with a resolution. Because of this, a lot of testing has to be done on our light system. So now, we have maintenance peo
    via u/DiDalt
  • 41
    being messed with but Ron keeps making a deal about it. Recently, a couple people have sided with Ron that the lights should be at full power at all times throughout the day. So now there's a huge feud in the office between team no-lights and team full-bright- -you- blinding-lights. The teams are getting bigger and it's to the point where some work isn't getting done because of the feud. Some people say, "I can't work with the lights so bright-I'm going home" while others say, "the lights aren't
    via u/DiDalt
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    play pranks on each other; such as buying lamps and flashlights for team bright-lights. This is a huge company (without naming my company, think Google or Microsoft size). Yet we're raging a war based on a light switch. TLDR; People are literally refusing to work because of a light switch.
    via u/DiDalt
  • 43
    krisfunk27 The part-time keyholder might be on her way out. She got written up last week for not recovering the store and for not stocking milk and water. My manager came back from vacation yesterday to find that the same girl did not stock milk and water and didn't recover.
    via u/krisfunk27
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    15madhatter My manager left and the rumor is that the co- worker no one gets along with is being groomed to move up and replace her. She literally refuses to talk to anyone unless it's to yell at them for something a few times a week. No small talk, no hellos, only when she sees something she doesn't like will she open her mouth.
    via u/15madhatter
  • 45
    Shannon M24 There's a mouse in the coffee room hiding under the fridge that the secretary has named Frederick. I saw him this morning. We aren't bros or anything but I don't hate him.
    via u/Shannon M24
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    EmilynnAMajor One of our lead staff just left for a new job so her spot is now needing to be filled. I know of two girls who are blood thirsty for that position and have already started acting like it's theirs. I talk to other staff when they're not around to see who everyone would want to get the job. Apparently no one WANTS either of them to have the job but everyone definitely knows which one they DONT WANT to have the job.
    via u/EmilynnAMajor
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    jakafina A coworker and I were overlooked for promotions, the one that got it shouldn't have as she was on probation but our manager conveniently took to long to post the position. We are both leaving end of November, after we get our bonuses. Only we know we're leaving and having 2 vacancies won't help them make goal.
    via u/jakafina

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