What was the hot work gossip of the day?

A woman called us all pissed off because we sold her daughter a car without her permission. The daughter is a grown woman of sound mind.

My coworker came in sometime during the off hours, took all her personal shit from her cubicle, and left her badge on our bosses desk. It was a fun morning. I love drama that doesn’t affect me.

That one IT girl has b**** slapped another IT guy and was fired over it.

The 'hot gossip' today was a company-wide email announcing that we were all getting a 15% 'inflation adjustment' raise, effective immediately. People were actually cheering in their cubicles until they scrolled to the very bottom and saw a tiny, 2-pixel-high font that said **'April Fools.'** There is a non-zero chance our HR director gets tackled in the parking lot by 5:00 PM. You don't joke about rent money.

Two real estate agents were having sex in a house that was listed for sale. And there were security cameras to prove it.

One of the managers said it will be ok to not finish the SharePoint migration before it stops being supported on Friday because she got the deadline extended. No one but me knows that she cant even ask for the extension until after the deadline, so all of the critical workflows that everyone uses for documentation are going to quit working. And most people work 9/80s so they will be off on Friday which means a bunch of people won't notice everything going to shit until Monday. But hey, this person is a manager and said they have grand plans for the SharePoint migration and I should back off. So I am taking Monday off and will enjoy watching shit shit show unfold remotely.

A guy at work got a speeding ticket last week. He asked me today for the in-car GPS / video because he swore he wasn't speeding. Video showed him pass two 30mph speed limit signs while driving 46. Sorry, dude. I was hoping it would help you, but it wasn't meant to be.

One waitress came in on another shift with the boyfriend of another waitress. The boyfriend drunkenly kissed the waitress that he came in with in front of the entire front of house crew. A new waiter asked what the boyfriend looked like and someone pulled up his Facebook profile. The new waiter said "wait a minute, I know that guy" and then proceeded to pull up the guys profile ... on Grindr.

people started whispering that a coworker was getting special treatment because they left early sometimes. What nobody knew was they were caring for a sick parent after work. Hearing people speculate about it honestly made the whole thing feel gross.

More retirement announcements. This is the first time in my career where people are leaving en masse. It’s weird. And they’re not boomers - everyone is older Gen X - the boomers were never here - these people have been the elders of the office for 20 years. Company doesn’t plan to replace anyone and people give the usual notice. It’s going to be a dumpster fire.

I worked in advertising and one of the top creative guys was dating an account person. But it turned out she was one of FOUR women he was seeing. on the day of the Christmas party she let the other 3 in and they vandalised his office and left the various sex toys he used with them on his desk. And they also went live with a blog detailing his sexual fetishes and other very embarrassing details. Legal had to get involved. Most insane part he left and they started dating again!

Management announced a 'surprise' team-building event on a Friday afternoon. Everyone knows it’s just a distraction because the project deadline is impossible and the budget is gone..

Oooooh this is currently happening As it turns out, one of my colleagues has been rather busy with at other colleagues - both male and female - I personally know 5 people who are involved At least three marriages have blown up as a result

Work at a library. My director was doing major illegal stuff as well as sexually harassing the staff. I reported it. Almost all the staff reported after me .We suspected the board was trying to sweep it under the rug but had no proof. After the community found out they then went about removing him. Found out they also allowed him to accumulate over 3,000 hours in vacation time and quietly tried to take it away. He resigned the other day but i found the legal paperwork for his lawsuit to get the vacation time back. In it, it confirms they were not disciplining him for all the stuff we reported and the actual amount of money was over $300,000. I left the paperwork highlighted for ease of reading on the break room table for the staff to read.

Just got hired on at a shop as a supervisor in training. The hiring manager wanted to give me a heads up on some recent drama. Apparently one of the new hires came in ready to go. Was over qualified for the position but wanted to work and had a good attitude. After the first day, one of the women at thr shop approached the manager saying that was her ex boyfriend who had been stalking her. She showed him 100s of voicemail he left her over the last week or so. He literally went through the hiring process just to get to her. He was walked off the property.

The dude that recently had an anger outburst and punched a hole in the wall realized that he is under HR investigation for work place violence after 4 witnesses wrote statements about it and is now trying to find any reason to sue the company before they fire him. This wasn't his first outburst and he keeps escalating what he takes his anger out on. It's only a matter of time before he takes it out on a coworker or a customer.

I was- I work in a place we do a lot of pushing and pulling of big levers (old fashioned signal box) and I had to pull a very heavy one and fell and ripped my leggings all the way from the top of the bum to the calf. Still had 5 hours of my shift to go.

A couple was in the health office (we are on a job site, so imagine a nurse’s office at school) asking about how to have safe sex because one of them has an STI and I was like 😳 because A) I should not be hearing this conversation. Use a sound machine for the love of God and B) why wouldn’t you ask Dr. Google? The nurse here knows how to operate the eye wash station and call 911.

They recently hired then fired a guy who was going to be project manager and VCIO. He was fired because he brain was just ChatGPT. Like he couldn't function without running it by ChatGPT first lol.

Last week was Spring break and a coworkers 16 yo daughter went with her friends to PCB, Florida. They get back to school on Monday and there are AI pictures of her with a bunch of guys and insinuating sexual activity took place with some of them. They are definitely AI and very badly done. But it is hurting her heart that people she thought was her friends have shared it.

Gossipy co worker switched companies thank god.

Not directly in my work but close enough that we’ve got to laugh at the fallout Real estate guy has just been caught doing home-visit massages and offering to waive the fee if the women will have sex with him after. He was caught by one of those “are we dating the same guy?” Facebook groups where he was known to many women by a false name. The mother of one of his colleagues saw the Facebook post and its all exploded from there. He was doing this on the clock when he was supposed to be showing people houses hahahaha

We found out one of our local dealerships that we frequently get parts from regularly plants metal shavings in their customers oil filters in order to sell them a whole new engine.

I can't find a job. I've been looking every day for 8 months. That's the gossip

I work for Amazon, which has a corporate culture of stack ranking, meaning that if you're in the bottom 5-10% you're essentially fired with severance through an elaborate PIP that you'll never pass. Anyway, one of the guys that was deemed to be surplus to requirements (who I won't name because their name is against the press releases) founded a startup and has raised the kind of Series A round that would probably set them for life and more if they decided to sell up right now. They've got a few employees, and now they're slowly expanding, despite having the money to now effectively hire hundreds. The kicker? The director recently left for another role, which they left again. The rumour mill (from people that know the founding engineer) was that the director that signed off on his performance plan to say he wasn't a good mid-level engineer was vetoed in the interview at this engineer's company. A guy three levels above him couldn't get a job in his company 18 months later.

The company’s equipment we sell is out of stock and the executives keep saying we have more coming. But the warehouse manager told us in private no PO’s have been approved for more equipment. Then yesterday our expense program had a pop up saying operation was halted due to nonpayment. So yeah looks like the company ran out of money.

We just got our annual performance reviews and the company sent out a generic email saying essentially “here is how you download your performance review from the HR system.” Well someone who disagreed with their bad performance review replied to that email to the entire company with their performance review and all of the reasons they thought it was wrong. It was clearly an email just meant for their manager but it went to nearly all 5,000 of us. Luckily IT deleted the email before it became a reply all nightmare but enough people still saw it.

Wouldn’t you like to know, HR

It becomes clearer and clear with each given day that people have no idea how to use our system and instead of asking those who do, they go blindly make adjustments hoping it with all work out Narrator: it didn’t

Front desk girl’s ex is stalking her, s*** shamed her on TikTok, put a tracker on her car and shows up wherever she is, she had to change her phone number because of harassing messages, he created a fake Instagram page and death threatened her best friend and now best friend is mad at her. (she already has a restraining order and is going to press charges.)

One of my coworkers partied at a nightclub all night,showed up to work on time the next morning,even 15min early,and was way more energetic than usual.i'm concerned he could suffer from cardiac arrest.

Got to know about affair b/w a senior married co worker and new joiner from another team.

Some employee's windscreen got smashed by a falling pine cone. I am that employee lol. Got it fixed today so all's good now, was just a stressful couple days.

The "quiet" guy in accounting got caught running a full side business during work hours. Not like a small Etsy shop — a whole LLC with employees. IT found out because he was using the company printer for invoices.

I quit! New job starting soon :)

My work friend is going on a dinner date with the father of two of our much younger colleagues.

A sixth grade girl broke up with her classmate bf on a video call with the other sixth graders (there's only 20 in the entire class, there were about 8 kids on this particular call). The girls said he cried, but also that he should've seen this coming because he was being a jerk to the now ex gf. Separately, one of the other girls asked one of the boys to go out with her, her friend had a crush on him but hadn't announced it to anyone. The betrayal was very strong and they had to come to my class afterwards and be group partners 😬

My workplace drama for the day is... that there is none. Which is incredible. I spent ten years working for a place where every single f****** day was an absolute shitshow. From the board firing secretaries because they wouldn't illegaly modify documents, to the top manager sexually harassing anything with two legs, to one of the employees shooting their neighbor's dog and bringing it onto company grounds... That place was a wild f****** ride. I started a new job a little over a year ago. Today, I am working on some remediation plans to correct a small landslide. I'm working from home, in my home office, with the most laid-back boss I've ever had, working with really intelligent and grounded people. My window is open so I can listen to the rain, and my cat is chewing on a toy nearby. If you're debating on leaving your shitty job and trying to find something new, let this be your sign. *It can get so much better.

our manager “called in sick” and then posted beach pics on insta the same day. whole office saw it before lunch. dude came back next day acting normal like we’re blind

My boss wasnt happy with the stain finish on our wood cabinets so he threatened to not pay us.

Top earner bullying many people. Raging in the office. Obvious mental health issues. Everyone is talking about her. Big boss won't do anything about it. People are talking about how weak and spineless he is.

I have zero interest in talking about anything other than work because it always leads to drama. That being said, apparently most of the team I work with talks about me and the work I do behind my back. It only became known to me because my manager had to loop me in that an employee was going back into my files and editing them and then taking it to management and pointing it out. I can't stress enough that I do not talk to these people, we all WFH and have our own projects to manage. Nothing I do affects them in any way. About 6 weeks ago they laid off over half of my team. They weren't performing well and the client was specifically asking me to take on their work and more of other people's work since it wasn't getting done. Apparently most my coworkers complained and bitched about it. But like why the hell wouldn't you be doing your job especially when people just got laid off? In this economy? No dude I'm making sure I'm doing exactly what the director tells us. He called me and promoted me to a different department where I don't work with clients so I have job security. My team hates me now. I don't give a f***, I'm getting paid more and the thing is that all that work I do I complete in like 6 hours and coast the rest of the day. Those dummies.

More drama but one guy is like purposely dropping shit in front of the other guy and not helping him out so the 2nd guy raised his voice at the guy doing it and I just happened to overhear and now its a whole thing.

A nurse was reported for "abandoning person served" ..... turns out, she just went to put her coat away and everyone over reacted

Our receptionist accidentally sent an email meant for her boyfriend to the entire company distribution list. It was extremely explicit and included details about what they did in the supply closet last week. She tried to recall the message but it was too late because half the office had already read it.

Teams meeting with everyone on camera (we all work from home). Someone mentioned something about alcohol and a lady in the meeting says "oh hold on", rolls her chair back 5 feet to the bookcase behind her and comes back with a bottle of tequila "I just got this yesterday, haven't tried it yet, it's supposed to be really good" Now everyone in the meeting is getting a call from managers asking questions. "No, I don't think she was drinking. The bottle was clearly still sealed. It was just innocent conversation".

Ooooh, I got a good one: A few years ago a veeeery successful manager decided to quit the corporate life and buy one of those 1 euro Italian properties to renovate and live a little. She did. We were all jealous. Rumor has it... It didn't go as well as she hoped. Eagerly waiting for the update.

Tim just quit for the 2nd time. Told one supervisor he needed off bc his mom died, but doesn't tell me (the owner) for another 2 days, changes the story about who died and when, cleans his truck out, ghosts his supervisor and the other owner on a return date, only to finally to text me his resignation 5 days later. Not the first time Tim has pulled this but it will be his last. He was mad that his paychecks weren't what he thought they should be, but he kept refusing loads to stay and remodel his house, so wtf Tim. Damaged the suspension on a $70k semi and left it smelling like wet dog and stale cigarettes on the inside.

That a former employee overheard two current employees talking shit about the new manager, and then texted that manager what she heard. The manager immediately went to her group chat with a few employees that are very loyal to her and told them everything. Those employees then spread that info through the rest of the afternoon shift. Info got back to the original employees who told a very different story. Apparently they saw the former employee, tried to say hello and were rebuffed. Some unkind words were exchanged and then the former employee left. She made everything up to stir things up. And the manager fell for it immediately and it has created a very awkward work environment. I love my job 😐

I guess I've got a mild one. I put my two weeks notice in on my coworkers' last day. Left the team down two (total of three left). One of those weeks was also when my boss was on a week away trip home so I wouldn't have to deal with her. I did not get an exit interview.

someone microwaved fish in the break room and three people almost filled HR complaints. turned out it was the manager. nobody said anything word after that.

We had a guy who was pressuring new hires into sex to keep their jobs. The same day he didn't show up to work, a news article started getting passed around. Turns out this guy is a huge rapist and there was a police investigation going on in the background, everyone unaware.

When Hayleigh showed up still rolling on molly and blew like half the dudes on the crew 🤷

The lights/filter/something went off in our office fish tank and the water is murky and gross. At least one fish died, maybe more casualties to come. The only person who can fix the system is out of town and no one has his number. Update: the fish man came back from vacay. The lights are on and the filters are running. Bucatini, Farfalle, Rotini and the Snail’s Shell Corp are alive and thriving. Rip Street Urchin who got flushed

F****** Kevin. That f****** a******, amirite?

My coworker thinks everyone wants her, including the location manager. She constantly talks about how he flirts with her. Except he doesn't, he's gay, and he's just outgoing and friendly. I've tried to stop her, but she's so sure, shes going to switch locations and ask him out. Its a huge move and going to crash around her.

A higher up at my job that retired a few years ago saved all of his paystubs from 2020 on the shared drive that everyone can access. He was making about $300k a year with about $125k of that just in bonuses. Meanwhile they just deducted $190 from one of our recent checks cause someone calculated our yearly bonus wrong.