‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes’: Wannabe office big shot gets fired after swapping his coworker’s $30 ear buds for knockoff replacements, exposing a long list of small stings

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  • I'm not sure where else to post this. a coworker got fired for stealing my $30 ear buds

    "My ear buds had been swapped with some dollar store generic ones" esc tab 9 # 1 2 3 W . A S caps lock shift control 7
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  • This all happened in 2016. I have a coworker who didn't strike me as a bad guy, but something was just weird with him.
  • He would be cagey about the most innocent topics, as though he wanted to appear "mysterious" and "involved with things that you don't need to worry about."
  • He really wanted to be perceived as 'connected' and lucrative. Anyway, I could go on and on about the weird stuff this guy did.
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  • Coming to work high on painkillers and openly talking about it - after he faked an arm injury and had no prescription.... to leasing expensive cars to give off the impression of wealth.
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  • This guy thought he was untouchable. He would throw parties and invite everyone. One time I went and it was at a mansion.
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  • The entire time he was posturing / implying that this was his house. I was chatting with a staff member and she told me he was "just house sitting for a family friend" or something like that.
  • Dude is just full of sh. Enough with the context, now to the story. I keep a pair a ear buds on my desk at work.
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  • They aren't expensive or anything, so they would just sit there when I left for the day, because we work in a normal office and nobody steals stupid sh like that.
  • Or so I thought. One day I'm sitting there and realize that something is different about my headphones... it takes me a few seconds, but I realize that the silicone ear pieces are black, but before they were opaque white.
  • ? Upon further inspection, my ear buds had been swapped with some dollar store generic ones, like the sort you would get when you fly Economy Plus and they pass them out with the small pretzel packages.
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  • My immediate thought is that one of my coworkers is playing a prank so I go around and ask everyone. I did a lot of foreshadowing already so I'm going to jump ahead - this guy had them in plain view, on his desk.
  • I confronted him about it, but he swore up and down they were his and I must be confused. I ended up just grabbing them and throwing the fake ones on his desk and walking away, because it was 100% obvious these were mine.
  • Meanwhile, I had already asked half the floor if they were taking the out of me earlier that morning. Even the manager knew I was looking for these stupid ear buds, presumably on the receiving end of a prank.
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  • He came by and asked me if I ever found them. I told him what happened. A few hours later this guy got fired.
  • Apparently there were a lot of other things that he had done (mild shock) and they just needed a reason. He was here on a work visa from a certain country in Africa which is associated with scammers,
  • and he had to move back. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Edit: if you want to hear some crazy stories about other stuff this guy did, let me know in the comments and I'll share some gold.
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  • Update: I wrote out a few more of his shenanigans if you look through the comments.

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