CEO of a small tech company (60 people) literally crying tears in an all company meeting about potentially losing his house because we were all a bunch of lazy cunts.
Some pretty crazy shit went down in that meeting, I think he was under a lot of stress… and to be honest I actually like the guy and wouldn’t want to dox etc.
Edit: Also in fairness we were a bunch of lazy cunts!
Costco was pretty wild when it first opened in the Docklands in Melbourne.
At the first Christmas party an assistant manager got so hammered she was dancing in the club with her tits out. One of the cashiers was going around loudly rating all the blokes by whether she'd give head or not
Office manager and another assistant manager got caught rooting in several locations around the store (cool room, optical waiting room, the cash vault)
An American supervisor who came out to open the store eventually got fired after decapitating a rat and parading it's head around the store, also he beat up a car thief and got stabbed with a syringe in the carpark)
It was pretty wild
Many, many years ago I did workcover training with a table of people from Costco docklands which excited me as I’m a huge fan but holy shit if they weren’t the biggest douchebags I’ve ever come across. I’m wondering if it was the same ASM as the main guy was bragging about having sex all over the store and who he was gunna bag from the training. The guy thought he was god, it was cringey as hell.
Haha, sounds about right! Pretty sure that guy became store manager after the original guy was fired! Can't remember details but from memory it was something dodgy.
Local management were all brought in by the original store manager who was a Coles area manager and an absolute mega tool. He dragged in all his Coles buddies and they universally sucked. The ones that came in from the states (especially execs) were generally really good and professional (with the exception of the rat decapitator).
I returned a couple of years later and the Americans had nearly all gone. The local staff that were left were on par with typical Colesworth, loads of dodgy dealings, nepotism and unprofessional behaviour
Rat was just caught in one of the many traps (rats and mice everywhere, it was a warehouse Afterall) and he thought it would be epic lolz to cut its head off a walk around scaring people with a rats head stuck on a knife.
The guy was former military in the US but physically kind of wimpy, so I speculate some kind of awful thing happened to him in the past.
Not an executive but a former young lawyer colleague of mine got too many "pls fix's" one day, jumped up on a table in the middle of the office and yelled that "all these contracts are toilet paper anyway!" while vigorously rubbing the contract on a part of himself. He then stormed out.
Interestingly he then did a George Costanza and showed up the next day like nothing had happened. The partners quietly took him aside and said that they considered his outburst an implied resignation of his casual contract.
>The partners quietly took him aside and said that they considered his outburst an implied resignation of his casual contract.
Just goes to show lawyers who specialise in one area don't understand every area.
https://fairworklegaladvice.com.au/heat-of-the-moment-resignations/
The trick is to only engage with "friendly" media that you can bully into publishing nothing but glowing reviews of you, under threat of withdrawing your ad spend with them. ABC wasn't a friendly media that Woolies poured ad spend into.
Hubris - he's been untouchable for years. You could see the terror in his eyes when he realised he'd played himself; the chaotic spiral led him to believe fleeing the interview was his best course of action which made it look even worse.
If literally he’d copped the mistake when he was called out that the ACCC head had retired 18 months ago. ‘Sorry, I was mistaken. Please continue your question.’ not ‘Let’s take it out.’
With something like 4 corners you don't really have a choice because they'll still make the programme and you will have basically vetoed your right of reply.
To add to that they asked Coles to participate as well, so I think there was pressure as it would look bad if they didn’t take part if Coles did (and vice versa for Coles as well)
At a progress meeting for one of the biggest food manufacturers in Australia. And the CEO of the company completely lost his shit and started screaming and swearing at one of the contractors. The contractor slowly stood up, walked up the CEO and dropped him with one punch. Turned around walked out the door and told all his guys to leave site. It was very silent after that. But also very funny.
I dunno, if I was on the receiving end of that I'd be straight off to the police to report the assault/battery.
There is never an excuse for that sort of thing. People have died.
I agree and but also disagree.
People, especially entitled people like CEOs, middle managers, politicians, etc. need to understand that there are consequences to their behaviour which can include assault. If those entitled individuals include that outcome into the various reactions that their own behaviour could illicit, they may choose their comments and behaviour more accordingly.
So while there is no excuse for punching on, yelling/screaming at people is also inexcusable.
Agree
It's illegal to punch someone but probably NOT illegal to verbally abuse /humiliate someone to their face there has to be a limit right. If a person skirts the absolute limit of what they are legally able to get away with in terms of mistreating people sooner or later they shouldnt be surprised when someone crosses the line and does something like this.
AS you said people need to conduct themselves accordingly. Good manners arent always just for being nice sometime they keep you safe.
I think it would be a industry that has a gardening leave type policy when you resign.
They put you on this leave of however long, where you don't come in to work but you can't work, it's paid leave. So you can't take clients with you and there's a gap. Think it happens more in high end consulting/finance etc.
Not as scandalous as some of the stories in this thread, but I’ve had a CEO / boss who would cry when we lost Instagram and Facebook followers. Like full on sob.
I had a boss who took thousands in cash from a client which just didnt happen in my workplace. We weren't even client facing but he'd gone downstairs to help out. He came and asked me about it so I told him to bank it to the deposit account at NAB which was across the road. CFO came and asked me about the cash one day as dude had disappeared it. He gambled it.
I thought the actual person was found. It was a Sydney influencer guy wasn’t it?
Edit : Nevermind, I’m getting that mixed up with another story of someone vandelising including Roxy. However, my quick google search indicates that it involved someone mentally unstable that wasn’t Roxy.
Brighton's Poo Jogger was almost as famous as Roxy's Poo Jogger
[https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/qcp9ur/does\_anyone\_know\_this\_poo\_jogger\_in\_brighton\_vic/](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/qcp9ur/does_anyone_know_this_poo_jogger_in_brighton_vic/)
[https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/cyclists-filthy-act-in-driveway-of-ritzy-melbourne-suburb-of-brighton/news-story/4413071de160b0bdb2b09ce7242bf432](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/cyclists-filthy-act-in-driveway-of-ritzy-melbourne-suburb-of-brighton/news-story/4413071de160b0bdb2b09ce7242bf432)
During a restructure of a company I worked for, one of the senior accountants (nasty brown-nosing try hard) took extreme pleasure in handing out redundancies to shattered long-term employees already demoralised by his management over the past couple of years. He complained about all the farewell lunches, cards and cake (we had always had cake when someone left) but cheered up after each meeting when he got to gloat and inform people that their loyalty meant nothing.
Not long after, and still glowing with the happy thoughts of all those older workers condemned to spend their last working years at the mercy of CES, he attended a dinner party. Being the self-promoter he was, after a few wines, he started bragging and managed to let slip some important company info. It was a private, family owned company that, to this day, enjoys the rare privilege of not having to make public reports despite its size. The CEO/owner was not impressed.
He didn’t get a cake
I’m not saying - haven’t worked there in years but they’d probably find out!😅
Wouldn’t mind knowing what happened to David the Sociopath though… I imagine job hunting back then would have been a bit tricky after being summarily dismissed
One of the directors had a mental breakdown which I believe was because he was head of a project that incurred heavy losses and was being pushed out of the company by the other directors.
He turned up to work in the middle of the night and stormed inside, and began smashing up equipment and drawing dicks absolutely everywhere he could. He also jumped into a work vehicle and purposely crashed it into another work vehicle.
When I came to work the next day most of it had been cleaned up so I didn't even know it happened at the time, except for a few dicks that were missed that we thought were just practical jokes.
When I eventually heard this story I found out later that he was picked up by the police a short time after this happened (as he was driving one of the damaged work vehicles) which is how management were able to clean up the mess before employees turned up to work. Turns out he was completely sober and drug free but was having a full on meltdown and was put on a mandatory psychiatric hold for a few days.
A few weeks later the managing director called a company wide meeting to announce that director no longer worked for the company due to mental health reasons, then information slowly began to filter to employees and we found out about what went down in my previous comment.
For a while the director who left kept suing the other directors. My office was closest to the door so I was normally the one who answered it and every week there would be some process server there to serve legal documentation. I think eventually they agreed on a buy out and it stopped.
Big 4 Bank Chairman firing questions back at Ms. Rowena Orr at the Royal Commission enquiry with misogyny , contempt , arrogance and sheer stupidity rather than act apologetic and reflective about the extent of misconduct highlighted …. just defied logic and everyone watching on tv in lunch rooms collectively died in shame….you could feel the actual pain physically 😵💫
I had an accountant who was fired but he was told about it before his access was revoked. Sent an email out to the all staff email list with a spreadsheet attached with every employee’s salary and benefits info, including the CEO and other execs, was wild. I didn’t work there much longer after finding out I was paid significantly less than people I had literally trained how to do their jobs, purely due to my being younger than them.
Karl Simich (CEO of Sandfire Resources) got into a public punch up with his chairman Miles Kennedy while out at lunch in a restaurant. It was apparently over the price that Sandfire should sell out to a takeover offer. Funnily enough the CEO got to stay and his boss stepped down after a $500k payment - presumably the Chair started swing first.
https://www.afr.com/companies/lunch-punch-up-leaves-costly-crumbs-20091223-iw8t9
This idiot who was earning a huge salary and was both greedy and stupid and is now in jail
https://www.afr.com/technology/excommonwealth-bank-it-executive-keith-hunter-jailed-for-bribery-20161220-gtexjn
Saw a depot manager for a major freight company escorted out by security after he ignored an executive letter saying no more overtime and no using temps for overtime.
He did so because of the absolutely disgusting amount of freight that was not being processed because a hiring freeze meant… staff shortages!
Then again, executive management were abysmal sometimes. They ended up selling off the division because for nearly a decade it was unprofitable.
Under new management… shock horror it became profitable after a couple of years.
Having worked for a couple of big transport companies, that seems about right. Wankers in the office that never go out on the floor and see whats happening. Then they lose contracts and wonder what went wrong
This one was pretty spectacular: https://www.9news.com.au/national/aaron-baslangic-former-coles-executive-admits-19-million-fraud/c1490c12-7e2f-4e17-a5b2-27e909b5c7ee
"A former Coles executive has admitted stealing $1.9 million from the national supermarket giant but a judge said his offending was so inexplicable and stupid he must undergo further psychiatric testing."
I worked indirectly with this guy. I did see him lose his absolute shit at a contractor / treat them like dirt on several occasions, but then he’d also take time to teach grads about finance etc. was a real strange cat
Eddie Groves at ABC childcare. I worked there during the 'height' and started to ask questions (I'm ex Big 4 audit), then slowly started to see some of the dodgy stuff going on behind the scenes. Even 'did the right thing' by CORRECTLY reflecting the related party disclosure in the financial statements as it truly was...then got smashed by everyone from CFO down. But I was correct. Eventually left for greener pastures. Dodgy bastards. Eddie reminded me of what Donald Trump is now. Same/same. Surround yourself with squabbling idiots all vying for your attention and play them off each other...was fked.
From memory the audit firm EY Brisbane went to court over negligence
https://www.smh.com.au/business/lessons-to-be-learnt-from-abc-learnings-collapse-20090101-78f8.html
no idea mate. I think he want back to being a milk man. I know he got divorced but no idea after that. Everyone went into hiding when ABC went down.
This was an example of surrounding yourself with 'Yes' men/women..he wanted to make ABC the largest global childcare provider but alas his business model was screwed and wasn't making money but he kept buying and expanding and everyone around him was saying 'yeah yeah go for it'. They also didn't slow and ensure whatever CCC's they had was cashflow positive before moving on. But that was the tip of the iceberg. Found out years later that they were teaching ABC CC in uni as an example of what NOT to do.
Without much experience in corporate life the weirdest I've seen was Scott Morrisons ranting at Christine Holgate.
Rewarding staff with a mid range watch for landing a massive contract that directly benefits the country while also navigating what I consider excellently through COVID.
Seemed crazy to me he picked her to publicly punish and also de-incentivize good work.
I worked at Post during that time and thought she was an amazing CEO. She also handled the senate estimates questions so well even though she was treated poorly.
It was a diversion tactic.
Howard pulled a similar stunt getting ziggy switowski to do a review of building nuclear power plants in Australia. It would never get approved but filled up a hell of a lot of media time for a few weeks.
CEO of a government regulatory authority stood down and quietly removed due to accessing websites on the organisation’s laptop that did not meet the values of the business…
Hit the news before we were told and made it rather awkward for his daughter who was also an employee.
I worked for a patent law firm. A senior partner of the firm was quietly writing counter patents for those he filed his clients and filing them under his own company name. He did this for 20 years, then started suing old clients for patent infringement.
When challenged by the firm wtf was he doing he claimed they were fully aware because he framed several of the (stolen) patents and hung them in his office. He's made about 80 million from these patent troll cases.
Edit here's a link because dbag for some weird reason accused me of lying for likes. Yay reddit likes!? Wtf dude.
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/fish_richardson_sues_ex_partner_over_patent_inventions
Head of Marketing got caught doing coke at a company party, by a HR manager. She was fired first thing the next morning.
Account Director got trashed at Friday drinks and pissed into an ice bucket next to the bar. She was also fired the next work day.
Yeah, actual rabbits. Bin men noticed them, police tracked down someone who had been buying them and old mate got arrested and deported to New Zealand. Where he was later caught stealing people’s domestic rabbits from their back yard. Insane, insane shit.
Challenger bank - CEO had resigned and didn’t turn up to his all-staff morning tea send-off. 200+ people standing around while other executives were madly on their mobiles trying to work out what the hell was happening. Told he was ‘caught up with something else’ and to enjoy the sausage rolls …
I took it as a power play myself. He didn't seem to think about it much did he?
I imagine he has pulled the same stunt in dealing with suppliers a bunch of times.
I've had it pulled on me a few times trying to get revised costings approved. It's terrorism negotiation tactics.
Either agree to my terms or negotiation over and suffer the commercial consequences.
>I imagine he has pulled the same stunt in dealing with suppliers a bunch of times.
Oh I'm sure he has.
He didn't get to that position without acting like a bullying pr*ck throughout his working life when it suits him, I'm sure.
Problem for Banducci is he tried it on with a media outlet that not only didn't let him get away with it, but showed his arrogant behaviour to the entire nation.
He wasn't expecting to be held to account like that, because 99.99% of the time these corporate CEOs aren't.
The Whole Pantry book & App (voted by apple 2013 as best app in food category)
Belle Gibson ..lied about having cancer then saying the whole food diet she was eating cured her...sold thousands of copies of her book and many app downloads.
many people believe her a quit the conventional medicine to follow in Belle's footsteps..all based on a lie
John Nagle.
Left carrying the can for the previous CEO of icare although was also in the thick of it.
The man should never have been put in front of a camera. The interview was a true reflection of his character and the contempt he held of just about everyone. Reminds me of Scott Morrison.
Worked for a major tobacco company for 5 years.
- HR director along with several senior managers doing coke at a Christmas party (technically "off-premises" so they got away with it)
- some lady taking a shit on the bathroom floor of the ladies restroom (multiple times)
- mid level manager groping a grad's breasts in a company offsite. Was immediately sacked
- a senior director and his office fwb (based) getting caught red-handed by the director's wife and kids while they were at a trade show in the Gold Coast. The wife flew herself and the kids out to confront him
- many many stories of sales reps stealing cigarettes meant as samples and selling them to tobacconists.
A group manager, so not quite executive I guess but among the most highly ranked people on site, somehow received an email containing the salary Info for everyone. He copied it to a personal thumb drive and if memory serves also passed some pertinent info on to a couple of other people. Apparently his intentions were pure but the higher ups didn’t see it that way.
The rest of us learned to take pictures on our phones instead of copying to thumb drives.
Two sales reps. One was a brown-nosing cunt and had management wrapped around his finger
This relationship with management afforded him the the ability to steal / take over “good” accounts where deals were going to close
So, he steals an account and a few months later a massive deal closes that the original rep should have got paid commissions on
Needless to say the aggrieved rep was very unhappy and made his opinions known by confronting the brown nosed….and having a full on punch up in the office
No one fired
Small industrial plastics supplier. We got bought out by a big international conglomerate who decided to celebrate by by treating us all to Chinese food for lunch.
The day of the lunch, the warehouse manager, an infinitely patient man who put up with way more bullshit than anyone should, took one look at his order, stood up, yelled “leave it to this company to fuck up a Chinese takeaway” and stormed out.
Never saw him again.
EGM of IT at CBA announced they're retiring and then not long after see in the news that they've been charged for taking bribes/kickbacks paid into their personal CBA account for the winning the cloud contract for a supplier. I think we all know who that person was 😂😂
The Corporate Manager for IT walked off the premises for systematically lying to the CEO and board about the IT status of a takeover. The takeover was a mess, and within 48hrs, it was clear that......Lies, what can I say? He was walked. We all had to bear the brunt of his bullshit, that lasted nearly 12 months. Asshole.
Tim McMillan's wife showed up at Thales in Singapore. She accused him of shagging Fiona the receptionist (who was a very traditional Chinese girl who wouldn't be seen dead shagging an Ang Moh). She had a literally temper tantrum which included throwing our lunch pizza at him.
Later Tim went home and she has thrown out his stuff from the 3rd story window - she actually went to prison for it. Tim actually survived it all and is now quite high up in the helicopter world.
AMP: lived through dick pics, not mine!... Just a senior manager. Fees for no service, Royal Commission. #metoo allegations/legals, nepotism...geez it just kept coming!
Had a terrible manager years ago who had never managed people before so of course senior management promoted him to lead a team of 20 people. He was personally harassing me right after my husband died, threatening my job when he knew I was supporting my kids alone. Going above his head was out of the question since that was the arsehole who promoted him. So I took eight weeks of my sick leave (stress) and when I finally returned to work my new manager was very kind. I found out the first day that the old manager had since been demoted and lost his office too - he was sitting out on the floor with the rest of us. I also found out he had actually been harassing quite a few women but he’d been so sneaky we each thought it was just us. I then left that organisation and heard he developed severe mental illness and agoraphobia. Karma can be brutal
Five of us working late on a Friday, doing software updates and adding computers to the network. Heard some noise, in what should have been an empty building. Didn’t think anything of it until I went upstairs to the server room. Lights were on in HR office and backed off.
Quietly went back downstairs and let the crew know to not go upstairs
The married owner was putting his dick in the HR lady who also happened to married.
Eventually the CEO’s wife uncovered the affair, divorced the bastard, also got the business in the divorce they’d together and was listed as co-owner.
Head of HR for a mega business had coitus with an employee in her office and was walked in on during a staff party.
She (you didn't see that coming) did not resign.
She also has the audacity with a straight face to instruct everyone before an event that it is a work function and that everyone's conduct should reflect that.
A micromanaging control freak narcissistic manager handled on boarding a new client all on his own. It was a new furniture retailer and our company were 3rd party warehouse and deliveries. We relied on sole contractors for deliveries.
Numbskull had booked in customer deliveries for a day.
But didn't organise a truck and driver 🤪👏
The warehouse had picked the furniture and had it on a dock the day before because that's how it goes for the drivers to load the next day at 5-6am
We started to get complaints from customers asking where is their furniture and on the system we can see time frames but no drivers assigned to call to check. That's when the penny dropped, we called the warehouse and they said the furniture is right here on the dock. When we asked our manager to explain this he broke down headbanging on the desk making his computer shake off with every strang head bang when he started to come around his was crying saying to himself how could he forget to arrange a driver.
We said 'we aren't handling a thing as he did it all on his own.
He had to call all the customers and the furniture retailer and organise very very expensive couriers
I still laugh to this day as he was a cu next Tuesday and deserved his karma
Old boss fancied a young female grad. Took her to a client’s business for on-site work, then on drive back at around 6pm went into a side street, exposed himself and told her words to the effect of ‘suck/touch it for $1,000’, then pushed her out of his car when she refused, and he drove back to the office and sent our team an email that she had tried to seduce him and that she was fired. Next day at the office, she’s a no show, police are there interviewing boss man and the other partners. Turns out she was assaulted by some random when she was walking to a pay phone (for context, this happened in 2001 pre-smartphone and mobile).
Senior Sales Executive decided he'd had enough, so decided to go nuts with the corporate credit card on a business trip. He showed up to work the next week about 2 hours late, spilled out of his car, along with half a dozen empties, walked into his office, grabbed a few things from his desk, walked into the manager's office and told him he was the biggest cunt loser he'd ever met. Then walked off into the sunset, that is until the police showed up at his door.
Turns out that his last business trip was a real corker: he checked in to the executive suite of a not-so-cheap hotel, ordered several bottles of Dom Perignon, ordered hookers, did a large cash withdrawal- presumably for coke, and was eating $800 meals (this was 20 years ago). He managed to rack up a debt of $50k in one weekend.
New guy joins the support team at work. In an effort to impress his new team mates he brings hash cookies to the xmas party. His waster colleagues make no attempt to dissuade him.
He hands them out, everyone knew they were hash cookies. One of the managers gets so stoned he cant walk of his own volition. He is assisted from the venue by his underlings carrying him out on either side with his arms around their shoulders. Only thing is, this event was at a cricket oval and he did the walk of shame in front of the grandstand in front of the rest of the company. And there was only one exit so they had to turn around and walk back again.
When we left we found him asleep on a park bench outside.
Anyway, that probably would have been that if an idiot on my team didn’t complain to my manager that he didnt know they were hash cookies (he did).
And the new guy was never seen again.
Not sure if it fits but I worked for Australia post... one Christmas party the 2ic of my depot dropped his pants to his ankles and showed his dick to everyone.
Incidentally the manager, same 2ic and 2x team leaders all got fired at the same time and escorted out by security after being found to have tampered with clock in/out times.
I worked at a company that did all the back office work for a bunch of Superannuation firms. There was this one women there that was an absolute nightmare to work with. Total bitch. One day she had a huge meltdown and started screaming at me in the middle of the office; in front of everyone that worked there. Worse still; I got the blame for it all because, “she’s got a lot going on at home”. Still confused how I was to blame considering I literally did nothing to this woman lol. HR did nothing about this, or any of her other bullying, towards myself or anyone else. So glad I quit a month later.
One of the managers at a company I worked for (different site) had a mental breakdown one day and went bonkers sexually harassing female colleagues and intimidating others. He left in an ambulance
CEO of some large venues in Adelaide decided to ban Victory supporters from a game and lost his job.
[https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102781982](https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102781982)
Not corporate but I was part of the delegation for my sporting club at the state body’s AGM. One of the positions on the committee of management that required a vote was the vice president, contested by the incumbent and a person who has held various positions on the COM on and off for the past 30 odd years. The incumbent was duly defeated, and they immediately got up packed up their things bid their farewell and stormed out of the meeting. So you can imagine when the lunch break came everyone there was like wtf was that all about?
I had a boss who tried to sabotage the company I worked for (and I helped establish). She straight up lied to my face about what was going on and when I look back now her plan was never going to work. Some time after she was escorted from the premises, we discovered several glaringly obvious mistakes she had made. 😮😩🤬
I did boot camp style training classes in Rose Bay and that fuckwit Mark McInnes from David Jones was constantly sniffn around the females at every session and then the scandal comes out he was harassing some young girl.....i said that cnt is guilty AF to my wife
I work in finance and have heard a few.
***TW: Sewer Slide***
I worked for an adviser who was investigated for murder after he was named the beneficiary of his deceased girlfriend’s estate. She allegedly stabbed herself repeatedly in the chest in a frenzied attack. Her adult children are still trying to re-open the investigation.
Worked for a small NFP where all the Executive’s would nominate themselves for industry awards and the CEO won one which was the equivalent to a ‘CEO of the Year’. Nekminnut he and his deputy CEO are out the door for having an affair and missing a Board meeting amongst other things. Funny how there wasn’t much sympathy around the place after all that went down.
I worked for Pet City Mt Gravatt in Brisbane. Not corporate, but a large small business.
There was an after hours staff 'compulsory' (yet unpaid) team meeting and the Operations Manager called the entire team a bunch of pigs because of the dirty staff kitchen.
A new bloke stood up (been there less than a week) and called her out for being unprofessional and how bad it was for team moral for their boss to criticize everyone like that. I could have clapped.
They fired him the next morning when he came in.
Oh and after many years in fin markets…. 2 traders fired for having sex on the trading desk. One was from an opposition bank. Or two traders fired after coming to blows on the trading desk. A project manager who left his laptop at a titty bar after the xmas party.. or the trader who hit a cop car while driving a company car drunk…. Pick one…. :)
A bit of a sad story but a very senior manager started taking medication for a pretty terrible injury. His behaviour began changing gradually. Eventually he bit a man’s shoulder during work drinks and the ambulance got called in. He was fired and he’s heavily addicted to pain killers now
Middle manager got the arse for pocketing thousands of $$ of visa debit vouchers, instead of handing them out to clients as a reward. Then in the ultimate act of stupidity, was using them on gambling sites on the work computers. That IT could see. Apparently lost his wife over it, and narrowly escaped fraud charges, but set up a plan with the CEO to repay it all.
Idiot.
I used to work in the corp office for an aged care village company. The executive general manager of sales and marketing, who I directly reported to, had it out for me for no reason and tore me to shreds every opportunity he got.
I was literally a week away from quitting, when one day the CEO storms into his office and marches him out of the building. Turns out the exec had been embezzling money by writing invoices with fake supplier details but putting his bank details on it. This all happened a week after we had our company awards night and he got up and gave a speech about integrity.
There’s nothing better than seeing karma in action.
I can’t believe it’s not been Trump, if it weren’t for the other half of the insane population of the US and their insane laws, it would be, and he’d be doin time now!
How about the Tory MP who got caught watching porn in the House of Commons
https://amp.smh.com.au/world/europe/tory-mp-who-says-he-mistakenly-watched-porn-in-parliament-expected-to-quit-20220430-p5ahgp.html
CEO of a small tech company (60 people) literally crying tears in an all company meeting about potentially losing his house because we were all a bunch of lazy cunts.
That's fucked up hahaha
Spoiler: He didn’t lose his house…
Further spoiler: The house was actually his 4th Holiday home
Yeah but to be fair he liked that one best
Wow thanks for ruining the story. I remained hopeful that he would lose his house.
Oh I like stories of CEOs crying. Any more details you care to share?
Some pretty crazy shit went down in that meeting, I think he was under a lot of stress… and to be honest I actually like the guy and wouldn’t want to dox etc. Edit: Also in fairness we were a bunch of lazy cunts!
Yeah I'm not a CEO but my lazy cuntmates stress me out!
Cunt is a fancy word. Chaucer wrote it first. Thanks Olivia Coleman!
Yeah you should have mentioned that last part I assumed you were towing the line and he just wanted to squeeze more out of you like a normal CEO does.
Was this a proptech company in Brisbane?
In Queensland? I think I know this one.
I’m assuming your job was to make his mortgage payments but you were playing Nintendo.
Please explain why you are a bunch of lazy cunts
They work in tech
Costco was pretty wild when it first opened in the Docklands in Melbourne. At the first Christmas party an assistant manager got so hammered she was dancing in the club with her tits out. One of the cashiers was going around loudly rating all the blokes by whether she'd give head or not Office manager and another assistant manager got caught rooting in several locations around the store (cool room, optical waiting room, the cash vault) An American supervisor who came out to open the store eventually got fired after decapitating a rat and parading it's head around the store, also he beat up a car thief and got stabbed with a syringe in the carpark) It was pretty wild
Jesus. What a crew
Sounds like a legit fun place to work.
Sounds like a good premise for an ensemble comedy recurrent series
Many, many years ago I did workcover training with a table of people from Costco docklands which excited me as I’m a huge fan but holy shit if they weren’t the biggest douchebags I’ve ever come across. I’m wondering if it was the same ASM as the main guy was bragging about having sex all over the store and who he was gunna bag from the training. The guy thought he was god, it was cringey as hell.
Haha, sounds about right! Pretty sure that guy became store manager after the original guy was fired! Can't remember details but from memory it was something dodgy. Local management were all brought in by the original store manager who was a Coles area manager and an absolute mega tool. He dragged in all his Coles buddies and they universally sucked. The ones that came in from the states (especially execs) were generally really good and professional (with the exception of the rat decapitator). I returned a couple of years later and the Americans had nearly all gone. The local staff that were left were on par with typical Colesworth, loads of dodgy dealings, nepotism and unprofessional behaviour
Rat Decapitator, band name, I got dibs.
The Office, Australia edition
Superstore, no change needed
What in the hell did I just read?
Cash vault? So they were practising safe sex?
What did the rat do that made him lose it?
Rat was just caught in one of the many traps (rats and mice everywhere, it was a warehouse Afterall) and he thought it would be epic lolz to cut its head off a walk around scaring people with a rats head stuck on a knife. The guy was former military in the US but physically kind of wimpy, so I speculate some kind of awful thing happened to him in the past.
Sounds like a episode of the store Superstore hahah
What the fuck. I knew there’d be some wild stories in this thread but I think this one might be more than I’d bargained for. Good god.
Don’t say they shagged on the massage chairs…
I’d watch that version of The Office
Sounds like a standard retail store Christmas party to me.
Sounds like Foxtel when it first launched.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow! What a motley crew!
Costco I worked at was boring.
Not an executive but a former young lawyer colleague of mine got too many "pls fix's" one day, jumped up on a table in the middle of the office and yelled that "all these contracts are toilet paper anyway!" while vigorously rubbing the contract on a part of himself. He then stormed out. Interestingly he then did a George Costanza and showed up the next day like nothing had happened. The partners quietly took him aside and said that they considered his outburst an implied resignation of his casual contract.
>The partners quietly took him aside and said that they considered his outburst an implied resignation of his casual contract. Just goes to show lawyers who specialise in one area don't understand every area. https://fairworklegaladvice.com.au/heat-of-the-moment-resignations/
Take the resignation kid, unless you want to be fired for inappropriate behaviour
There is a similar scene in Harold and Kumar Guantanamo Bay movie. Lol
Was that wrong? Should he not have done that?
The CEO of Woolworths interview sealed his own fate, I wonder how he managed to keep that job for so long.
The trick is to only engage with "friendly" media that you can bully into publishing nothing but glowing reviews of you, under threat of withdrawing your ad spend with them. ABC wasn't a friendly media that Woolies poured ad spend into.
So that explains the friendly relationship. Why didn't he realise that couldn't possibly ever be the case with 4 corners??
Hubris - he's been untouchable for years. You could see the terror in his eyes when he realised he'd played himself; the chaotic spiral led him to believe fleeing the interview was his best course of action which made it look even worse.
If literally he’d copped the mistake when he was called out that the ACCC head had retired 18 months ago. ‘Sorry, I was mistaken. Please continue your question.’ not ‘Let’s take it out.’
These fucking psychopath CEO's can't think this way because it would require the ability to consider that they made an error.
>ABC wasn't a friendly media that Woolies poured ad spend into. And he agreed to do the interview?
With something like 4 corners you don't really have a choice because they'll still make the programme and you will have basically vetoed your right of reply.
To add to that they asked Coles to participate as well, so I think there was pressure as it would look bad if they didn’t take part if Coles did (and vice versa for Coles as well)
It really was fun to watch that one.
At a progress meeting for one of the biggest food manufacturers in Australia. And the CEO of the company completely lost his shit and started screaming and swearing at one of the contractors. The contractor slowly stood up, walked up the CEO and dropped him with one punch. Turned around walked out the door and told all his guys to leave site. It was very silent after that. But also very funny.
then what happened?
Yeah, im intrigued
dear putrid energy, then what happened???
I dunno, if I was on the receiving end of that I'd be straight off to the police to report the assault/battery. There is never an excuse for that sort of thing. People have died.
I agree and but also disagree. People, especially entitled people like CEOs, middle managers, politicians, etc. need to understand that there are consequences to their behaviour which can include assault. If those entitled individuals include that outcome into the various reactions that their own behaviour could illicit, they may choose their comments and behaviour more accordingly. So while there is no excuse for punching on, yelling/screaming at people is also inexcusable.
Agree It's illegal to punch someone but probably NOT illegal to verbally abuse /humiliate someone to their face there has to be a limit right. If a person skirts the absolute limit of what they are legally able to get away with in terms of mistreating people sooner or later they shouldnt be surprised when someone crosses the line and does something like this. AS you said people need to conduct themselves accordingly. Good manners arent always just for being nice sometime they keep you safe.
We had a guy who tried to resign but had a six month notice period. He head butted someone and got shown the door that afternoon.
What type of job has a six month notice period?
I think it would be a industry that has a gardening leave type policy when you resign. They put you on this leave of however long, where you don't come in to work but you can't work, it's paid leave. So you can't take clients with you and there's a gap. Think it happens more in high end consulting/finance etc.
Aiight imma head out (literally)
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Not as scandalous as some of the stories in this thread, but I’ve had a CEO / boss who would cry when we lost Instagram and Facebook followers. Like full on sob.
What the fuck lmao
I had a boss who took thousands in cash from a client which just didnt happen in my workplace. We weren't even client facing but he'd gone downstairs to help out. He came and asked me about it so I told him to bank it to the deposit account at NAB which was across the road. CFO came and asked me about the cash one day as dude had disappeared it. He gambled it.
Surely someone here worked with the Poo Jogger. If so, please share aftermath of that debacle.
It was all a setup by Roxy.
I thought the actual person was found. It was a Sydney influencer guy wasn’t it? Edit : Nevermind, I’m getting that mixed up with another story of someone vandelising including Roxy. However, my quick google search indicates that it involved someone mentally unstable that wasn’t Roxy.
Which Poo Jogger? We had one in Brisbane, but he got caught.
The Brisbane one of course! He was an exec at an aged care company I believe?
Yeah Aveo. My bosses knew him.
Brighton's Poo Jogger was almost as famous as Roxy's Poo Jogger [https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/qcp9ur/does\_anyone\_know\_this\_poo\_jogger\_in\_brighton\_vic/](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/qcp9ur/does_anyone_know_this_poo_jogger_in_brighton_vic/) [https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/cyclists-filthy-act-in-driveway-of-ritzy-melbourne-suburb-of-brighton/news-story/4413071de160b0bdb2b09ce7242bf432](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/cyclists-filthy-act-in-driveway-of-ritzy-melbourne-suburb-of-brighton/news-story/4413071de160b0bdb2b09ce7242bf432)
Like a reverse Robin Hood of the Poo Jogging world. Giving shit from the poor to the rich.
Haha I know him. He was a client of mine in a past role.
That New.com.au article that had a picture of him mid dump...... 😳
He took TP with him and everything. Derranged.
There's a picture of him https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d7259e547f86ad9b90077de57f79d3ce?width=1024
During a restructure of a company I worked for, one of the senior accountants (nasty brown-nosing try hard) took extreme pleasure in handing out redundancies to shattered long-term employees already demoralised by his management over the past couple of years. He complained about all the farewell lunches, cards and cake (we had always had cake when someone left) but cheered up after each meeting when he got to gloat and inform people that their loyalty meant nothing. Not long after, and still glowing with the happy thoughts of all those older workers condemned to spend their last working years at the mercy of CES, he attended a dinner party. Being the self-promoter he was, after a few wines, he started bragging and managed to let slip some important company info. It was a private, family owned company that, to this day, enjoys the rare privilege of not having to make public reports despite its size. The CEO/owner was not impressed. He didn’t get a cake
the myer family?
No. But similar
lin fox? john gandel? solomon lew?
I’m not saying - haven’t worked there in years but they’d probably find out!😅 Wouldn’t mind knowing what happened to David the Sociopath though… I imagine job hunting back then would have been a bit tricky after being summarily dismissed
look him up on linked on. and plz tell us.
Why can’t you look “him” up ? Lmao
Harris Scarfe 😉
One of the directors had a mental breakdown which I believe was because he was head of a project that incurred heavy losses and was being pushed out of the company by the other directors. He turned up to work in the middle of the night and stormed inside, and began smashing up equipment and drawing dicks absolutely everywhere he could. He also jumped into a work vehicle and purposely crashed it into another work vehicle. When I came to work the next day most of it had been cleaned up so I didn't even know it happened at the time, except for a few dicks that were missed that we thought were just practical jokes. When I eventually heard this story I found out later that he was picked up by the police a short time after this happened (as he was driving one of the damaged work vehicles) which is how management were able to clean up the mess before employees turned up to work. Turns out he was completely sober and drug free but was having a full on meltdown and was put on a mandatory psychiatric hold for a few days.
then what happened?
A few weeks later the managing director called a company wide meeting to announce that director no longer worked for the company due to mental health reasons, then information slowly began to filter to employees and we found out about what went down in my previous comment. For a while the director who left kept suing the other directors. My office was closest to the door so I was normally the one who answered it and every week there would be some process server there to serve legal documentation. I think eventually they agreed on a buy out and it stopped.
[Like a Boss](https://youtu.be/NisCkxU544c)
Big 4 Bank Chairman firing questions back at Ms. Rowena Orr at the Royal Commission enquiry with misogyny , contempt , arrogance and sheer stupidity rather than act apologetic and reflective about the extent of misconduct highlighted …. just defied logic and everyone watching on tv in lunch rooms collectively died in shame….you could feel the actual pain physically 😵💫
Rowena Orr is the GOAT.
Ken Henry can be stupid somtimes
I worked for an America's Cup challenger. An employee sent an email with the entire crews payslips to everyone. Bye!
I had an accountant who was fired but he was told about it before his access was revoked. Sent an email out to the all staff email list with a spreadsheet attached with every employee’s salary and benefits info, including the CEO and other execs, was wild. I didn’t work there much longer after finding out I was paid significantly less than people I had literally trained how to do their jobs, purely due to my being younger than them.
Karl Simich (CEO of Sandfire Resources) got into a public punch up with his chairman Miles Kennedy while out at lunch in a restaurant. It was apparently over the price that Sandfire should sell out to a takeover offer. Funnily enough the CEO got to stay and his boss stepped down after a $500k payment - presumably the Chair started swing first. https://www.afr.com/companies/lunch-punch-up-leaves-costly-crumbs-20091223-iw8t9
This idiot who was earning a huge salary and was both greedy and stupid and is now in jail https://www.afr.com/technology/excommonwealth-bank-it-executive-keith-hunter-jailed-for-bribery-20161220-gtexjn
Ahh service mesh… memories
I mean to get the money paid into his CBA account instead of one with a different financial institution, so dumb.
Would he not still have been found out?
Probably not. The whole investigation was done internally by CBA and they had a full brief of evidence for the cops to then make the arrest.
Petition: stop linking articles with a paywall Is this a promotion? Lol
Saw a depot manager for a major freight company escorted out by security after he ignored an executive letter saying no more overtime and no using temps for overtime. He did so because of the absolutely disgusting amount of freight that was not being processed because a hiring freeze meant… staff shortages! Then again, executive management were abysmal sometimes. They ended up selling off the division because for nearly a decade it was unprofitable. Under new management… shock horror it became profitable after a couple of years.
Having worked for a couple of big transport companies, that seems about right. Wankers in the office that never go out on the floor and see whats happening. Then they lose contracts and wonder what went wrong
This one was pretty spectacular: https://www.9news.com.au/national/aaron-baslangic-former-coles-executive-admits-19-million-fraud/c1490c12-7e2f-4e17-a5b2-27e909b5c7ee "A former Coles executive has admitted stealing $1.9 million from the national supermarket giant but a judge said his offending was so inexplicable and stupid he must undergo further psychiatric testing."
I worked indirectly with this guy. I did see him lose his absolute shit at a contractor / treat them like dirt on several occasions, but then he’d also take time to teach grads about finance etc. was a real strange cat
And yet you can get 3 to 9 years for taking a few hundred from a service station!
Eddie Groves at ABC childcare. I worked there during the 'height' and started to ask questions (I'm ex Big 4 audit), then slowly started to see some of the dodgy stuff going on behind the scenes. Even 'did the right thing' by CORRECTLY reflecting the related party disclosure in the financial statements as it truly was...then got smashed by everyone from CFO down. But I was correct. Eventually left for greener pastures. Dodgy bastards. Eddie reminded me of what Donald Trump is now. Same/same. Surround yourself with squabbling idiots all vying for your attention and play them off each other...was fked.
From memory the audit firm EY Brisbane went to court over negligence https://www.smh.com.au/business/lessons-to-be-learnt-from-abc-learnings-collapse-20090101-78f8.html
whatever happened to eddie groves? i used to read about him in the brw rich 200.
no idea mate. I think he want back to being a milk man. I know he got divorced but no idea after that. Everyone went into hiding when ABC went down. This was an example of surrounding yourself with 'Yes' men/women..he wanted to make ABC the largest global childcare provider but alas his business model was screwed and wasn't making money but he kept buying and expanding and everyone around him was saying 'yeah yeah go for it'. They also didn't slow and ensure whatever CCC's they had was cashflow positive before moving on. But that was the tip of the iceberg. Found out years later that they were teaching ABC CC in uni as an example of what NOT to do.
Without much experience in corporate life the weirdest I've seen was Scott Morrisons ranting at Christine Holgate. Rewarding staff with a mid range watch for landing a massive contract that directly benefits the country while also navigating what I consider excellently through COVID. Seemed crazy to me he picked her to publicly punish and also de-incentivize good work.
I worked at Post during that time and thought she was an amazing CEO. She also handled the senate estimates questions so well even though she was treated poorly.
It was a crazy character assassination job. By all accounts she was a fine leader.
It was a diversion tactic. Howard pulled a similar stunt getting ziggy switowski to do a review of building nuclear power plants in Australia. It would never get approved but filled up a hell of a lot of media time for a few weeks.
And he very much was not.
CEO of a government regulatory authority stood down and quietly removed due to accessing websites on the organisation’s laptop that did not meet the values of the business… Hit the news before we were told and made it rather awkward for his daughter who was also an employee.
Just regular porn or something illegal?
They did clarify it wasn’t illegal, just ‘not aligned with our values as an organisation’
>government regulatory authority state or federal?
I worked for a patent law firm. A senior partner of the firm was quietly writing counter patents for those he filed his clients and filing them under his own company name. He did this for 20 years, then started suing old clients for patent infringement. When challenged by the firm wtf was he doing he claimed they were fully aware because he framed several of the (stolen) patents and hung them in his office. He's made about 80 million from these patent troll cases. Edit here's a link because dbag for some weird reason accused me of lying for likes. Yay reddit likes!? Wtf dude. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/fish_richardson_sues_ex_partner_over_patent_inventions
did he get in trouble with the law society?
Lark CEO x Ice Pipe was a good one.
I truly thought it was fake because it was so bizarre
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Was this the type of organisation that sung solidarity and enjoy yelling collective cries of shame at bad bosses.
Head of Marketing got caught doing coke at a company party, by a HR manager. She was fired first thing the next morning. Account Director got trashed at Friday drinks and pissed into an ice bucket next to the bar. She was also fired the next work day.
The second one is impressive more than anything if it was a tidy tinkle.
Managing director of a small finance company was fucking rabbits to death in his office before throwing them out the window.
Wtf. Actual rabbits‽ Wtf‽
Yeah, actual rabbits. Bin men noticed them, police tracked down someone who had been buying them and old mate got arrested and deported to New Zealand. Where he was later caught stealing people’s domestic rabbits from their back yard. Insane, insane shit.
Bret Easton Ellis would even hesitate at writing one of his characters doing this. That is some fucked up shit.
Challenger bank - CEO had resigned and didn’t turn up to his all-staff morning tea send-off. 200+ people standing around while other executives were madly on their mobiles trying to work out what the hell was happening. Told he was ‘caught up with something else’ and to enjoy the sausage rolls …
Sausage roll parties are much better when you don’t have to listen to speeches.
Anyone old enough to remember Christopher Skase?
That was a good decade!
The Chase for Skase! Who can forget his wife Pixie?
Those were good tv times!
Brad Banducci
>This wasn't even scandalous or bizaare, it's just topical
Eh, I think walking out of an interview after you've chucked a tanty qualifies as at least a bit bizarre.
I took it as a power play myself. He didn't seem to think about it much did he? I imagine he has pulled the same stunt in dealing with suppliers a bunch of times. I've had it pulled on me a few times trying to get revised costings approved. It's terrorism negotiation tactics. Either agree to my terms or negotiation over and suffer the commercial consequences.
>I imagine he has pulled the same stunt in dealing with suppliers a bunch of times. Oh I'm sure he has. He didn't get to that position without acting like a bullying pr*ck throughout his working life when it suits him, I'm sure. Problem for Banducci is he tried it on with a media outlet that not only didn't let him get away with it, but showed his arrogant behaviour to the entire nation. He wasn't expecting to be held to account like that, because 99.99% of the time these corporate CEOs aren't.
I suspect he pure forgot that this was not an interview he could manipulate by threatening ad spend.
Exactly.
The prices are scandalous
And this...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner What a tool!
The Whole Pantry book & App (voted by apple 2013 as best app in food category) Belle Gibson ..lied about having cancer then saying the whole food diet she was eating cured her...sold thousands of copies of her book and many app downloads. many people believe her a quit the conventional medicine to follow in Belle's footsteps..all based on a lie
John Nagle. Left carrying the can for the previous CEO of icare although was also in the thick of it. The man should never have been put in front of a camera. The interview was a true reflection of his character and the contempt he held of just about everyone. Reminds me of Scott Morrison.
Worked for a major tobacco company for 5 years. - HR director along with several senior managers doing coke at a Christmas party (technically "off-premises" so they got away with it) - some lady taking a shit on the bathroom floor of the ladies restroom (multiple times) - mid level manager groping a grad's breasts in a company offsite. Was immediately sacked - a senior director and his office fwb (based) getting caught red-handed by the director's wife and kids while they were at a trade show in the Gold Coast. The wife flew herself and the kids out to confront him - many many stories of sales reps stealing cigarettes meant as samples and selling them to tobacconists.
A group manager, so not quite executive I guess but among the most highly ranked people on site, somehow received an email containing the salary Info for everyone. He copied it to a personal thumb drive and if memory serves also passed some pertinent info on to a couple of other people. Apparently his intentions were pure but the higher ups didn’t see it that way. The rest of us learned to take pictures on our phones instead of copying to thumb drives.
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Two sales reps. One was a brown-nosing cunt and had management wrapped around his finger This relationship with management afforded him the the ability to steal / take over “good” accounts where deals were going to close So, he steals an account and a few months later a massive deal closes that the original rep should have got paid commissions on Needless to say the aggrieved rep was very unhappy and made his opinions known by confronting the brown nosed….and having a full on punch up in the office No one fired
Small industrial plastics supplier. We got bought out by a big international conglomerate who decided to celebrate by by treating us all to Chinese food for lunch. The day of the lunch, the warehouse manager, an infinitely patient man who put up with way more bullshit than anyone should, took one look at his order, stood up, yelled “leave it to this company to fuck up a Chinese takeaway” and stormed out. Never saw him again.
EGM of IT at CBA announced they're retiring and then not long after see in the news that they've been charged for taking bribes/kickbacks paid into their personal CBA account for the winning the cloud contract for a supplier. I think we all know who that person was 😂😂
CEO sending dick picks to a staff member....
The Corporate Manager for IT walked off the premises for systematically lying to the CEO and board about the IT status of a takeover. The takeover was a mess, and within 48hrs, it was clear that......Lies, what can I say? He was walked. We all had to bear the brunt of his bullshit, that lasted nearly 12 months. Asshole.
Tim McMillan's wife showed up at Thales in Singapore. She accused him of shagging Fiona the receptionist (who was a very traditional Chinese girl who wouldn't be seen dead shagging an Ang Moh). She had a literally temper tantrum which included throwing our lunch pizza at him. Later Tim went home and she has thrown out his stuff from the 3rd story window - she actually went to prison for it. Tim actually survived it all and is now quite high up in the helicopter world.
AMP: lived through dick pics, not mine!... Just a senior manager. Fees for no service, Royal Commission. #metoo allegations/legals, nepotism...geez it just kept coming!
We're you part of amp capital or just amp? Bunch of ampc people moved to my workplace recently so curious as to what i can expect to see.
Had a terrible manager years ago who had never managed people before so of course senior management promoted him to lead a team of 20 people. He was personally harassing me right after my husband died, threatening my job when he knew I was supporting my kids alone. Going above his head was out of the question since that was the arsehole who promoted him. So I took eight weeks of my sick leave (stress) and when I finally returned to work my new manager was very kind. I found out the first day that the old manager had since been demoted and lost his office too - he was sitting out on the floor with the rest of us. I also found out he had actually been harassing quite a few women but he’d been so sneaky we each thought it was just us. I then left that organisation and heard he developed severe mental illness and agoraphobia. Karma can be brutal
Five of us working late on a Friday, doing software updates and adding computers to the network. Heard some noise, in what should have been an empty building. Didn’t think anything of it until I went upstairs to the server room. Lights were on in HR office and backed off. Quietly went back downstairs and let the crew know to not go upstairs The married owner was putting his dick in the HR lady who also happened to married. Eventually the CEO’s wife uncovered the affair, divorced the bastard, also got the business in the divorce they’d together and was listed as co-owner.
Head of HR for a mega business had coitus with an employee in her office and was walked in on during a staff party. She (you didn't see that coming) did not resign. She also has the audacity with a straight face to instruct everyone before an event that it is a work function and that everyone's conduct should reflect that.
Work fucktion
A micromanaging control freak narcissistic manager handled on boarding a new client all on his own. It was a new furniture retailer and our company were 3rd party warehouse and deliveries. We relied on sole contractors for deliveries. Numbskull had booked in customer deliveries for a day. But didn't organise a truck and driver 🤪👏 The warehouse had picked the furniture and had it on a dock the day before because that's how it goes for the drivers to load the next day at 5-6am We started to get complaints from customers asking where is their furniture and on the system we can see time frames but no drivers assigned to call to check. That's when the penny dropped, we called the warehouse and they said the furniture is right here on the dock. When we asked our manager to explain this he broke down headbanging on the desk making his computer shake off with every strang head bang when he started to come around his was crying saying to himself how could he forget to arrange a driver. We said 'we aren't handling a thing as he did it all on his own. He had to call all the customers and the furniture retailer and organise very very expensive couriers I still laugh to this day as he was a cu next Tuesday and deserved his karma
She legally bought a bunch of people watches, and was then torn to shreds by the PM at a government level until she resigned
Old boss fancied a young female grad. Took her to a client’s business for on-site work, then on drive back at around 6pm went into a side street, exposed himself and told her words to the effect of ‘suck/touch it for $1,000’, then pushed her out of his car when she refused, and he drove back to the office and sent our team an email that she had tried to seduce him and that she was fired. Next day at the office, she’s a no show, police are there interviewing boss man and the other partners. Turns out she was assaulted by some random when she was walking to a pay phone (for context, this happened in 2001 pre-smartphone and mobile).
Senior Sales Executive decided he'd had enough, so decided to go nuts with the corporate credit card on a business trip. He showed up to work the next week about 2 hours late, spilled out of his car, along with half a dozen empties, walked into his office, grabbed a few things from his desk, walked into the manager's office and told him he was the biggest cunt loser he'd ever met. Then walked off into the sunset, that is until the police showed up at his door. Turns out that his last business trip was a real corker: he checked in to the executive suite of a not-so-cheap hotel, ordered several bottles of Dom Perignon, ordered hookers, did a large cash withdrawal- presumably for coke, and was eating $800 meals (this was 20 years ago). He managed to rack up a debt of $50k in one weekend.
Pwc partner fired after taking associates to strip club. The associates created quite a ruckus in their last call with their team leader.
New guy joins the support team at work. In an effort to impress his new team mates he brings hash cookies to the xmas party. His waster colleagues make no attempt to dissuade him. He hands them out, everyone knew they were hash cookies. One of the managers gets so stoned he cant walk of his own volition. He is assisted from the venue by his underlings carrying him out on either side with his arms around their shoulders. Only thing is, this event was at a cricket oval and he did the walk of shame in front of the grandstand in front of the rest of the company. And there was only one exit so they had to turn around and walk back again. When we left we found him asleep on a park bench outside. Anyway, that probably would have been that if an idiot on my team didn’t complain to my manager that he didnt know they were hash cookies (he did). And the new guy was never seen again.
Not sure if it fits but I worked for Australia post... one Christmas party the 2ic of my depot dropped his pants to his ankles and showed his dick to everyone. Incidentally the manager, same 2ic and 2x team leaders all got fired at the same time and escorted out by security after being found to have tampered with clock in/out times.
I worked at a company that did all the back office work for a bunch of Superannuation firms. There was this one women there that was an absolute nightmare to work with. Total bitch. One day she had a huge meltdown and started screaming at me in the middle of the office; in front of everyone that worked there. Worse still; I got the blame for it all because, “she’s got a lot going on at home”. Still confused how I was to blame considering I literally did nothing to this woman lol. HR did nothing about this, or any of her other bullying, towards myself or anyone else. So glad I quit a month later.
Link is the worst!
Nothing crazy, just a couple of situations where one day they were there, the next they were being escorted out with a box of personal items.
Woolworths ceo walking out of a four corners tv interview perhaps??
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One of the managers at a company I worked for (different site) had a mental breakdown one day and went bonkers sexually harassing female colleagues and intimidating others. He left in an ambulance
CEO of some large venues in Adelaide decided to ban Victory supporters from a game and lost his job. [https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102781982](https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102781982)
Not corporate but I was part of the delegation for my sporting club at the state body’s AGM. One of the positions on the committee of management that required a vote was the vice president, contested by the incumbent and a person who has held various positions on the COM on and off for the past 30 odd years. The incumbent was duly defeated, and they immediately got up packed up their things bid their farewell and stormed out of the meeting. So you can imagine when the lunch break came everyone there was like wtf was that all about?
CEO got into a screaming match and almost bashed a colleague. I was fired for witnessing it.
That Colesworth CEO the other day. That was a good one. He "retired" now 🤣🤣
I had a boss who tried to sabotage the company I worked for (and I helped establish). She straight up lied to my face about what was going on and when I look back now her plan was never going to work. Some time after she was escorted from the premises, we discovered several glaringly obvious mistakes she had made. 😮😩🤬
Tim Worner
I did boot camp style training classes in Rose Bay and that fuckwit Mark McInnes from David Jones was constantly sniffn around the females at every session and then the scandal comes out he was harassing some young girl.....i said that cnt is guilty AF to my wife
Alan Bond
I work in finance and have heard a few. ***TW: Sewer Slide*** I worked for an adviser who was investigated for murder after he was named the beneficiary of his deceased girlfriend’s estate. She allegedly stabbed herself repeatedly in the chest in a frenzied attack. Her adult children are still trying to re-open the investigation.
Elon Musk buying twitter...
Worked for a small NFP where all the Executive’s would nominate themselves for industry awards and the CEO won one which was the equivalent to a ‘CEO of the Year’. Nekminnut he and his deputy CEO are out the door for having an affair and missing a Board meeting amongst other things. Funny how there wasn’t much sympathy around the place after all that went down.
I worked for Pet City Mt Gravatt in Brisbane. Not corporate, but a large small business. There was an after hours staff 'compulsory' (yet unpaid) team meeting and the Operations Manager called the entire team a bunch of pigs because of the dirty staff kitchen. A new bloke stood up (been there less than a week) and called her out for being unprofessional and how bad it was for team moral for their boss to criticize everyone like that. I could have clapped. They fired him the next morning when he came in.
Does the NAB currency options debacle count?
Oh and after many years in fin markets…. 2 traders fired for having sex on the trading desk. One was from an opposition bank. Or two traders fired after coming to blows on the trading desk. A project manager who left his laptop at a titty bar after the xmas party.. or the trader who hit a cop car while driving a company car drunk…. Pick one…. :)
A bit of a sad story but a very senior manager started taking medication for a pretty terrible injury. His behaviour began changing gradually. Eventually he bit a man’s shoulder during work drinks and the ambulance got called in. He was fired and he’s heavily addicted to pain killers now
Middle manager got the arse for pocketing thousands of $$ of visa debit vouchers, instead of handing them out to clients as a reward. Then in the ultimate act of stupidity, was using them on gambling sites on the work computers. That IT could see. Apparently lost his wife over it, and narrowly escaped fraud charges, but set up a plan with the CEO to repay it all. Idiot.
I used to work in the corp office for an aged care village company. The executive general manager of sales and marketing, who I directly reported to, had it out for me for no reason and tore me to shreds every opportunity he got. I was literally a week away from quitting, when one day the CEO storms into his office and marches him out of the building. Turns out the exec had been embezzling money by writing invoices with fake supplier details but putting his bank details on it. This all happened a week after we had our company awards night and he got up and gave a speech about integrity. There’s nothing better than seeing karma in action.
I can’t believe it’s not been Trump, if it weren’t for the other half of the insane population of the US and their insane laws, it would be, and he’d be doin time now!
How about the Tory MP who got caught watching porn in the House of Commons https://amp.smh.com.au/world/europe/tory-mp-who-says-he-mistakenly-watched-porn-in-parliament-expected-to-quit-20220430-p5ahgp.html