15+ Managers who had bizarre employees: 'We had to throw away the last 2 hours of product...$650,000 estimated cost'

These managers are spilling the stories of the employees who made them gasp with their ridiculousness. 

In this world, you will come across a lot of people. Some will be smarter than you, others not so much. Somehow, we frequently end up with the world's dimmest bulbs as our coworkers, as you may know if you've worked, well, anywhere. 

Some workers simply cannot follow the rules — they don't even attempt to. It's like they walked in on day one and just started working with 0 instruction. Rule book? We don't know her! 

This type of employee can be absolutely infuriating to work with. You can correct them, but it goes in one ear and out the other. Managers can correct them, and even impose consequences, but some workers are absolutely resistant to learning even the simplest tasks. 

These bosses get so fed up with their workers making huge, and often costly, workplace mistakes. There are times when workers have done things that are so wrong and so inexcusable that they have to be fired. I think a lot of employees take things lightly, but if you lie to your boss even once, for example, how could that boss ever trust you again? Or if you're so late all the time that you've gotten reprimanded time and time again, and then you're late on an important day,  you can't say you weren't warned about the consequences of your actions. While many bosses will stand up for their workers, a lot of bosses also don't want to deal with the hassle of an employee who only has their self-interest in mind. 

Plus, let's be real, some misdeeds are truly irreversible! Just ask the boss who had to clean up the mess after an employee tried to invoice one client… yet managed to send all the clients everyone's invoices. Oh. My. Gosh. Can you even imagine messing up that badly in front of all your colleagues and your bosses? Just humiliating. You just have to quit the job at that point (if you're not fired within like, a millisecond of the boss discovering your mistake). And that's not even the worst offense, as you can read about down below with these unbelievable tales from managers who have face-palmed hard over their employees' mishaps. 

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