Brutal Betty

“The company I worked for made home furnishings.

The person who was in charge of us, whom I will call Betty, was a really nice woman when we were outside the office.

Inside, she was brutal. She would yell at people all the time and was never, ever, wrong.

She said you could never throw out any food from lunch that you didn’t plan to eat unless you asked her if she wanted it first. Otherwise she would actually go into the garbage and fish it out to see if she wanted to eat it.

One day, she tripped over an extension cord, fell, and broke her hip. As she lay there, screaming in pain (which I can’t fault her for too much, that’s gotta be painful), we called an ambulance.

Just as the EMT’s show up, Betty noticed some dirt on the floor. So she yells at one of my coworkers, Steve, to clean it up. He says, “No problem. I’ll get a broom” and she responds with, “No. Use your hands.”

The EMT leaned over next me and asked, “Did you guys push her?”

So everyone was super excited because we thought it would be Betty’s last day at work. The reign of terror would be over.

But nope. She was back 3 weeks later, with her leg propped up on a chair and one of those little poles with the plastic robot claw on the end. So when people would walk past her, she could reach out and grab them with it.”

This story was found on Reddit and edited for length and clarity.

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We searched through todayatwork.com to find some crazy and funny firing stories. Please enjoy them and we hope they make you feel slightly better about your own job (if they don’t, let’s maybe consider going job hunting). As always, we’d love to hear some of your own stories to feature on our site so please leave them in the comments below!

Fired Over a Screensaver

Today I was threatened with being fired for not having a screensaver running on my computer!

I have tried numerous times to run a screensaver but for some reason they don’t stay running while I’m away. I even had an app running that tries to blacks out the screen, but when the room is dark the screen didn’t look 100% black. It was dark with a bit of a glow still.

Anyway because it wasn’t a screen “saver”, my boss thinks the screen will be damaged and it may get an image burned into it. Even though there was no image displaying! Just a gray glow.

And this he decided was a good enough reason to threaten my job!

I argued that there would be even more light with a screen saver and that the fear of “burn-in” is from the old CRT screen days so it’s not even applicable to modern computers. I’m using an iMac with an integrated display!

We settled on me shutting down the computer every time I leave it, but I still can’t believe I almost got fired for my computer not being able to run a screensaver!

Sidework

I have worked in restaurants for a very long time and it is always amusing to tease the new people.

I would train them to do the dumbest things like empty the hot water from our coffee machine that was connected to the tap. Then watch them hopelessly pour out pitcher after pitcher of hot water.

Or I’d tell them to go outside and into the cellar to get more napkins and laugh hysterically while they wandered around the building looking for the cellar door.

The best though was this sweet girl named Jess who I made rewind the fans at the end of her shift with a broom stick. I told her each fan had be rewound 57 times before we closed so that they would work the next day.

Unfortunately I was fired for making her do this. I didn’t know she was the manager’s niece!

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In this crazy video an employee goes nuts and starts destroying office equipment– even hurling it at his fellow coworkers!

If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out! We wouldn’t want to be anywhere near this guy when this went down.

Truly an #EmployeeFromHell

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But just how crazy can people get??

From an in-home bonfire to seeing dead people you won’t believe what some tenants have done to their poor landlords!

We took some crazy tenant horror stories from Whisper and decided to share them with you.

(And we’d love to hear your own crazy stories in the comments below!)

We know you have to have some crazy tenant horror stories of your own or some that have been shared with you!

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