What's the most you've seen a co-worker do wrong and not get fired?

[hepcat]

This past Friday, a guy I work with who lives an hour away from work texts our supervisor at 10am about how he has car trouble and he's trying to get a ride or borrow a car to get to work. First boo-boo, you're supposed to be here at 8am. He ends up not showing up the entire day and never officially calls out of work. By all accounts he should get a no-call no-show.

Monday comes around and he shows up to work, about an hour late, again citing car trouble. The day continues on and he needs to go to another site to do some work and he's left his badge at home, so I have to go with him to scan him in. Luckily the place is 5 minutes away.

Then today, he forgets to ship out a container that should have gone out yesterday but because he forgot his badge he couldn't scan out his shipment and waited until today. He has his badge today but missed meeting the shipping guy at 11am.

All semi-minor stuff, but how many strikes do you get?

[teeray]

I worked with a girl once who just kind of came and went as she pleased. It was at a small local retail store so the only employees were me, her, and the owner.

She was pretty attractive and the owner was a lonely old man who wanted to bang her so she got away with anything she wanted.

Meanwhile, I forgot to initial something that was essentially irrelevant on one invoice on a day when she didn't show up when I did over $13,000 of business for him in one day and unloaded the merchandise from the warehouse (it was a mattress store) and he attempted to slash ALL my commissions for the entire month in half because of the missing initials.

After a tense conversation he relented but it was also clear that we both thought it was time for me to move on. He was kind enough to allow me to stay on until I found another job or he found my replacement, whichever came first. But that was mostly just bc he was lazy and didn't want to pick up the slack of me not being there.

[boo7382]

too many go on daily for me to write on here.

one lady is the main culprit. very insubordinate/rude/demanding towards my boss, never does her job on her own, can't handle her own problems without wasting 400 hours of my boss' time when he has 8,000 other things he needs to be doing, constantly spends company money like we are rollin in millions of dollars (which is why I don't allow her to touch the office supply orders).

She should have been fired years ago....luckily for her our CFO is a perv and she talks dirty to him on the phone.

So many others that I can't even delve into on here. Basically, of the 8 people who work in my office, 4 wouldn't have lasted more than a month at any other company.

[KSpan]

I had a coworker at my old job who would literally just go home in the middle of his day for hours on end. He'd take naps, watch TV, go to the bar... all sorts of crap. This went on for months before our super caught on, and I think he was too embarrassed to fire him and let the story go further up the chain.

[The Saltman]

I once got a blowjob from a coworker.

I decided he should stay on.

[Zcustom]

I work with one of the dumbest people on the planet. Every mistake you can think of, even the simplest task, she's screwed up royally.

When I take over this place next year my first order of business is to fire her.

Some people just have an "in" with the boss, in her case she's happy to work for very little pay and my boss is a cheapskate, so it works for him.

In your case it sounds like dude is just a dumbass. In the normal course of action he should get warnings for his behavior and let go if it continues. Sucks for you in the meantime, but that's life working with other people. Wish there was a better answer.

[Hawk]

follow up question...how many of you are working right now?!!!!

I'm just sayin

[Zcustom]

I'm on my lunch Hawky!

Dammit Hawk!

[boo7382]

follow up question...how many of you are working right now?!!!!

I'm just sayin

multitasking ftw.

so suck it.

[Mvp2014]

I know a guy who spends every day talking on message boards about pointless bs that has nothing to do with his job. He should probably be fired.

[Zcustom]

so suck it.

twhs

[Mrs Pantherfan]

One of our salesman got caught "selling" our product on ebay b/c he's a dumbass lazy fug...

same salesman had a customer email me to tell me that he was the rudest most inconsiderate person she's ever dealt with. He told her "Your order is a complete waste of my time"...She went on to say that she will never use us again and she will bad mouth our company from now on..also, the 45k sqft warehouse that needs material for, will be bought from one of our competitors

The dumbass asshat still works here..I want to punch him in the testicles on a daily basis

[Hawk]

multitasking ftw.

so suck it.

bring it!!!

[boo7382]

bring it!!!