A new joiner girl who was assumed very sweet turned out to be a heavy drinker and created a scene.  
  
 Another dude drank and couldn't even tell his address .

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Intern swore at the team lead? Manager got extra close to reportee?  Mine: saw an new joinee use pickup lines on CEO's girlfriend (she worked in the same company)

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Intern swore at the team lead? Manager got extra close to reportee?

Mine: saw an new joinee use pick-up lines on CEO's girlfriend (she worked in the same company)

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It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.

What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?

Consultant

What's the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in office

Software Engineer

What's the craziest reason someone got fired?

Here's mine at my previous job. A collegue of mine was fired for smoking weed in the bathroom. He got back to his laptop and he was high as fuck, I am pretty sure he didn't even understand why he was getting fired.

Software Developer

A very senior manager who barely drinks, got too pumped up during our offsite. Started ordering shots for everyone, one after the other. We had never seen him dance, and somehow, he was the person who danced the most that night.

Eventually, he started openly cursing at a partner (in a playful way, but could easily be non playful), and somebody recorded this. 
I think the video circulated, and it's been weird for him since.

What's your best story?

What's your favourite office party gossip?

Let me go- 
Coworker who used to lie a lot and spread rumours. Like they'll make up a story in their head, and start telling random things. Once she pinged everyone saying that I got engaged, and I suddenly started receiving texts in company groups 🤷🏾

What are some of the worst habits of your coworker?

Nothing major, but this bothers me a lot! 
 "Hi" 
 Just say what you want to say instead of waiting for me to reply

Frontend Engineer

A friend used to work as AVP at HSBC’s credit analyst team in Bangalore Office. Apparently, one of the female AVPs loves gossiping and went around the office saying our guy doesnt work at all and is shitting on a crucial project. When reported to the lead VP, he failed to take any action.

Upon threatening intimation to HR, the lady got wind of the whole situation and calls up our guy applogising and stuff. But the back bitching doesnt stop and this time our guy ends up leaving the toxic workplace.

No cookies for guessing who’s in line for promotion next.

Other reported incidents against which no actions were take
1) making juniors cry
2) deleting teams billable hours without informing anyone
3) not informing about leaves and then creating chaos over non completion of work

and the show is just getting started….

HSBC India shitshow

I recently made a switch and joined this remote organization. Off late, I’ve realized its a bunch of scammers and pseudo-visionaries who are running that shitshow. Surprisingly its a large company and money is flowing in. 

I report directly to the CEO and he expects me to ‘nag’ him or ‘spam’ him all the time with WA texts. 

G**ndu wouldn’t reply to my texts for days at a stretch, won’t reply to emails but call me out in a company townhall saying he didn’t hear any update. 

When I pointed out that I’m waiting on his feedback, his point was that I didn’t escalate! Who tf do I escalate about the CEO to? And why is it okay to expect an employee to spam on text messages. 

Don’t you want them to respect your time ffs? Goes on to only say how he doesn’t value his own time. 

Now everytime I get a WA notification, my anxiety spikes up. Is this toxicity even normal and acceptable?

My boss expects me to treat him like my girlfriend ffs

Digital Marketing

Same as the title.

I don't know why but this whole incident came to my head today and it still gives me second hand embrassment.

Looking forward for more such cringe Stories.

In my first job, a friend of mine (fresher) cried when his manager left the company and bought a gift for her.

Research Specialist

Saw this question on a really old AskReddit thread, and it made for a very interesting read. 
Learnt that Lancome is exact the same products at Loreal but 20% more expensive.

But most of the things were US related. Got me curious what the Indian version would look like.

Looking to learn some industry secrets, TILs, and more :)

What secret from a former job can you reveal now that you no longer work there?

Energy domain - my previous company was selling their Software in the name of AI but all they were doing in the background was manual calculation and Power BI methodologies.  
 Scam 😆

Corporate Strategist

What is the worst thing that you have done in corporate?

Worst thing done at Corporate?

Recently McKinsey employee committed suicide. Now, CAM partner berating three bright associates for doing a job right because the partners looked like idiots.

Fuck your seniority. GenZ believes in meritocracy.

Leaks: Shocking email sent by Partner berating Associates for doing right job.

email sounds right to me, looks like a senior calling out mediocrity 
  
 maybe talking to them in person and in a professional way would have been better, but still LGTM

Senior Software Engineer

Robotics Engineer

Looking forward to your answers. 
Here’s my bizarre story. 😂

Something that happened a few years ago but let me assure you all, one of the craziest stories ever.

I was working out of office that day and I hear two folks chatter. So, I stand up to see beyond my cubicle. 

A Senior and his Junior are talking. Since, I was due for a break, I decided to sit and listen from my cubicle.

The junior is talking about one of her direct reportees. He was a new joiner at the company and had moved cities. Apparently, rather than cooking at home he used to order food every meal. 

This messed up his stomach. So when he was at office one day, he wanted to go to the washroom. But, on his way a very senior VP paused him to congratulate this guy on a client feedback for his first project.

Poor fellow, couldn’t hold it in anymore and dashed to the washroom but he was too late. The entire men’s washroom floor was smeared with watery diarrhoea.  🤢

Apparently, it had already been a couple of weeks since then and very few people knew about this. But by now, some people along with me had overheard this story being narrated.

And OMGG, the office slack channel started going wild with GIFs and memes being dropped like crazy. 🤪😂

And now this memory is imprinted in the minds of everyone at the office, just like that shit stain on the washroom floor. 😶‍🌫️😂

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I once interviewed for an internship at this startup that made stuff for pets. I had researched the company inside and out.

I wore this funky shirt with a bird pattern to fit in 'context'. 
Turns out, the CEO was wearing the exact. same. shirt. 
We both just froze for a second, then she started laughing and said, "Okay, you've got the right vibe for this place!"

Weirdly enough, accidentally matching outfits with the boss helped me get the internship. 
I guess sometimes the most awkward moments can actually work in your favour!

Do you have funny/weird internship stories?

This aim of this post is to make a thread of funny/stupid incidents which happened in your workplace today. Just trying for ways to make post-office hours sane by hearing funny/stupid incidents 🙃

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Investor

Do employees fight over text chat or mails ? 

How’s your company culture? Is it positive or don’t care or there’s Lafda going on between employee / management and there’s a show running always between these folks ? ( might be funny ) . 


What are some crazy dialogues used in mail/chat by folks at your company ?

Internal e-lafdas at your company ?

Founder

My heart is filled with nothing but disgust if these allegations are genuine. I hope this reaches its natural conclusion and justice prevails.

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Worth pointing out here: most companies don't even have POSH policies that cover male victims of abuse 
  
 I hope he gets justice

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