People Share The Most Unethical Thing Their Boss Has Ever Asked Them To Do
A boss can make or break a job.
Worse still, is when a bad boss asks you to get in on their badness, forcing you to choose between the moral high-ground and a paycheck.
Kind of like what happened with these people.
Reddit user, SethmAR15, wanted to know what your employer tried to get away with when they asked:
"What’s the most unethical thing a boss has ever asked you to do?"
Sometimes it's small, but inexcusable. Nothing like a boss asking you to do more work than what's required of you, is there?
Always A Good Thing When The Boss Says, "Don't Ask Questions."
"I had a boss ask to me take a bunch of stock from the warehouse to his personal storage unit, and not to ask any questions …"
TJDigital_
"You did it huh"
writer6996
"Turns out he’s been taking ‘damaged’ goods and keeping them in a storage unit and selling them online. I let the owner of the company know (his head office happens to be at my branch) my boss didn’t last too much longer after that, I got a decent raise 6 months later… if he’d cut me in then maybe it would have been a different story."
TJDigital_
In-Person Tutoring Is A Separate Charge
"First job after I graduated college, boss called me into his office and had me sit next to his daughter while she took an online exam, told me to make sure she passed it."
"She definitely wouldn’t have passed if I wasn’t in the room."
AllGarbage
People's Lives Ruined
"I worked for the largest property management in San Francisco and frequently the Manager would ask us to shred checks that came to us so they could file for eviction on tenants. I quit immediately."
47-Rambaldi
Sounds Like A Harassment Suit Waiting To Happen
"Branch Manager (Banking) asked me to pose in a picture, showing a lot of cleavage, to use on his construction loan website for his builders. He wanted them to ‘see’ who they would be working with in a daily basis so he could get more business."
Hchel25
Murder shouldn't really be a thing involved on job applications, but someone probably should have told employers like these.
I Guess Murder Is Asking For A Lot
"My old boss at dollar tree would make me drive her to the bank in my car every night. And she would have me park like 10 feet back from the ATM while she walked up to it. She told me that if someone ever tried to run up on her while she was depositing the money I had to run them over. She said if they were too close to her to just hit her as well. She was incredibly adamant that I absolutely HAD to do this and very serious."
durkinbrowns
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"Keep people at work when there was a chemical leak from the car painting shop next door, and people were getting sick."
"The boss wasn't on site (almost never was), I tried calling him and got no answer, and I was the most senior worker on site so I sent everyone home."
"When I was almost home (1h+ commute) he called me back. He had gotten my voicemail where I explained the situation and he was not happy. Apparently we should have waited it out or I should have arranged for everyone to work from home (not possible)."
"The guy was a d-ckhead but this one still makes me angry when I think about it."
Keep It Under 40 Hours
"Also at Dollar Tree, most of my cashiers were teenagers or dipsh-ts that never showed up for work so this older Korean woman kept getting called in to work the register. She was pretty much getting 40+ hours every week and open season for benefits was getting ready to start. My district manager called me and told me I had to convince her to not get any benefits or else. I told him that else better be him doing that sh-t himself because I'm not about to do his dirty work."
Sol-Blackguy
And then there's these stories. Bosses who make you wonder, "Is that what it takes to be in charge?" Because, wow, talk about flat out terrible people.
Lives Are Never Worth Profit
"Many, many years ago I was working as a part-time mechanic for a guy selling "restored cars". He called me in for an emergency brake repair on a TR-4. One of the rear wheel cylinders had failed and he needed it fixed ASAP. He had a buyer lined up with cash."
"Instead of having me hone and rebuild the cylinder properly (I had the tools and the kit to do so) he wanted me to cut the pipe to the rear brakes and just crimp it over onto itself, enough to stop the leak. He was in a hurry and wanted it fixed before the customer saw anything."
"I fixed it properly anyway, so that no one would die, and then rolled my toolbox out of there that very night."
limeycars
Crossing A Serious Personal Line
"When I was 16 I worked at Spencer's in the mall. The store manager was a middle aged female who found out she was being demoted. She made the decision to instead quit. Her last day I happened to be closing the store with her. Nothing wierd, we had done it many times before. After everything was closed and locked up we were punching out in the back room. I went to open the door that led back into the store and she physically put her hand over it and closed it like a scene from a movie."
"Then she said "you know I make schedules right" I said "yea I understand that". She said "Do you think it's a coincidence that you and I are closing my last day? This is your opportunity to do anything that you want with me." I was so uncomfortable and I didn't know what to do, so I gave her a hug and she said really that's it.. All the while her husband and 2 kids were waiting in the car outside the mall to pick her up to pick her up."
cheesekernd
Lesson Learned: Never Let A Boss Push You Around
"I had a manager that tried to get me to falsify reports to the feds (financial stuff). I flat out refused. Soon after I had to leave the company for I would have been fired for made up bullsh-t on his part. To this day I will never regret standing my ground."
_Volly
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Secrets have a habit of getting out of control.
First you tell a lie, or do something not meant to be shared with others, then you keep it to yourself. From there, with time, it grows and grows to uncontrollable proportions. Suddenly, it's not about the initial lie or secret but how long its been kept. To tell someone now might make things worse than in the beginning, and that's what these stories are all about.
Time.
Reddit user, Dramatic_Bat3265, wanted to know the dirtiest of dirt when they asked:
"What’s your dirty lil secret?"
Being a parent is hard. Being a child is hard. No one wants to do something wrong for fear of what the other might say or think, so let's keep lying and hope that works?
Pass The Blame To Their Kids
"When our phone was disconnected (1990's) for non-payment, I dialed 911 to see if they would still pickup (they did) but I hung up right away. Ten minutes later the cops showed up at my door, and I blamed it on the kids."
cartoonassasin
Let Her Keep Thinking It...
"When I was a kid, my mom took away my favorite computer game CD for a few weeks as punishment for something I did. (Bad grade I think?)"
"I found where she hid it, photocopied the CD label, cut out the print, glued it to a blank disk, and put that in the place of the real CD. (Surprisingly she never noticed!)"
"I played it when no one else was home. Its been 18 years, and I still haven't told her!"
IntergalacticPopTart
A Pure Confession
"It wasn’t raccoons that spilled that paint in the garage in 1993. It was me."
Sh-tStuckInYourTeeth
Schools like to make a big deal out of busting kids for not telling the truth. What happens when someone working for the school is one of the ones helping to perpetrate the lie?
Someone In Power Has Your Back
"When i was in high school, i failed second semester of biology. So here comes the next year and i have to retake it. Again, i pass first semester but fail second semester which means retaking the entire class."
"Well, i transferred schools after that. When i was getting all my transfer information looked over in the office at the new school, the woman noticed i had two passed first semesters but never passed a full class."
"I said “passing two semesters is KINDA like the full class”, she winked, and that was that. no more bio."
"so i guess it’s OUR dirty little secret."
illitior3
Credit For Nothing
"I never wrote my 7th grade science paper on Dysentery, and when my teacher asked me if I turned it in, I said yes."
"She looked through all of the papers and stacks of paperwork on her very crowded desk, and she said she 'knew she saw it there somewhere.'"
"I got a B for a paper I never wrote."
"Sorry Ms. Weber."
BBQinFool
In the long run, sharing these secrets wouldn't be that damaging, would they? So much time has passed that you could laugh about it with friends and family.
Unless you just so happened to be responsible for the ending of your parents' marriage.
Marking Your Territory
"One time when I was like 5-9 years old my dad was shopping around at a lumber store. I wandered around alone and couldn’t find a bathroom. I had to pee so bad. So I just found a secluded back corner behind some wood and pissed on the floor. 30 years later I still drive by that place every day and remember."
Wick3d3nd3r
"According to natural law, that lumber store belongs to you now."
scooterandchainsaw
Boss Is A Jerk? We'll Never Tell.
"The CEO of the company is a micromanager who wants to make even the tiniest decisions."
"He has a coffee mug with the text: Rule 1: I am always right Rule 2: When not, see rule 1."
"It might be a joke, but I feel it's a constant subliminal message he sends himself. So, I hid the mug a couple of months ago."
"I just left the company last week, and did not return the mug."
Ultra-Pulse
Got News For You, It Was Probably Not Your Fault
"5yr old me ruined my parents marriage. I distinctly remember finding what I now know is a condom(unused) in our old station wagon. Me not knowing any better began playing with it. Got done tossed it in the trash. Fast forward a short time later. My father returns home and begins to drag the can to the road. As he closes the lid he notices said condom and you can guess where it goes from there. I didn’t learn that was the reason until I was about 14-15."
Wide_Berry7254
The Talking Point Of Camp The Rest Of The Summer
"When I was about 8-9 I was sent to a summer camp for 1 month. My sister, who was 14, also was there. Never been away from my parents before. This camp was located around Lake Delton wisconsin. I remember the cabins in the woods. Now I don't know if I had arachnophobia before this experience, but I recall that the toilet stalls had dozens of daddy longleg spiders all over, and I was so scared I just held It in for about 4-5 days."
"Well.. One day I just couldn't hold it anymore and had to make a run for the toilets. I semi ran/walked to The toilets, trying to hold it in, made it In to the main area where the sinks are and just couldn't hold it anymore and just quickly, with one hand, pulled down my pants from behind and dropped the biggest dump on the tile floor, all while still in motion towards the toilet."
"Thank God no one was in there to see this. When I stepped out, a large group had formed out side and inside one of the staff was covering his face with one hand and holding a hoes in the other.No one suspected me.. .. I thanked God that no one found this out as if they had, the rest of my stay there would have been utter torment."
"Fast forward about 30 years.. Im at my parents house with my wife.. My sister is there as well, brothers. Anyway.. We're talking and camp comes up. Told her that it was Me who did that... She nearly laughed to death, Saying "the entire camp talked about this all summer". Hate spiders up until this day."
"Good times."
_NeXXeR_
Maybe keep these to yourself, you know? No need to go making waves where none need be.
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People Confess Which Extremely Common Skill They Never Quite Mastered
I admire musicians. Pianists, guitarists, drummers, violinists, and every other instrumentalist deserves to make a decent living for doing what they love.
While creating music is a specific skill set, however, not everyone is capable of doing it.
Curious to hear examples of this, Redditor RefrigeratorDry495 asked:
"What is an extremely common thing that others can do but you can’t?"
It's cruel how the mind can seemingly play tricks. These are some mental capabilities envied by others.
Decisions, Decisions
"make up my fking mind."
– ITTrillionaire
Short Term Memory
"Remember what was said within the past 5 mins."
"ADHD isn't easy to deal with."
"I need to upgrade to AD4K."
– Draiko
Let's Focus
"I have a very hard time doing mentally taxing work with other people around. Lots of nights and weekends."
– patricksaurus
Now, Look Here
"Keep eye contact while speaking to someone."
– AidilAfham42
"Same here. I wish I knew how to fix this, maintaining eye contact with someone for more than a second or two is like holding my hand under hot running water, I can only do it for so long until I have to pull my hand away."
– LayClespool
The Mind Wanders
"Keep a hobby. Everyone I know has at least one hobby if not multiple. Sometimes a lifelong passion."
"Meanwhile I can't stick to one for more than two weeks."
– schwertfisch
The name of the game is: Let's Remember People's Names.
And You Are...
"Remember names."
– Ronotrow2
"I was told that when you get introduced, you use the name in the first 5 sentences talking with them."
"I tried that. Now they look at me as I am a weirdo and I still can't remember names."
– comicsnerd
Who Did What To Whom?
"I can watch 6 damn seasons of some show, and still won’t be able to tell you any of the characters names."
– COMRADEBOOTSTRAP
The Anxiety
"Yep, same here."
"I dread people saying 'Aren't you going to introduce us'. No actually, I may have known these people for years, and could tell you all sorts of things about them, but to remember their names I'll need to go check my phone."
– carlovski99
Let's get physical. If you can.
Get Down
"Kneel comfortably, goddamn knees."
– craigmaddiehopsital
"I see people just sitting on their kneecaps and I'm like how."
– PRIC3L3SS1
Taking The Plunge
"Dive into water. It's not that I'm bad at it. It's that I just can't make myself do it."
– Molly_Michon
Fitting In
"Wear ear buds."
– extod2
"And here I thought my ears were just deformed or something. I see people walking around, doing activities, heck my teens do chores with them in. All the bending, jostling, turning of the head, and they stay in their ears. I can't move or they'll fall out."
"Hell, they'll fall out in a few minutes even without moving. I've tried several different kinds over the years, have concluded my ears are just not normal, and gave up on the earbud lifestyle."
– Fang_Jolima
Some People Just Have This Power
"Snap my fingers."
– sdsxnx
It seems most people are good at recognizing faces.
Even in a pandemic era where we are surrounded by masked faces out in public–where they are required or recommended–people seem to easily acknowledge others with their eyes and know exactly who they're seeing.
I'm not that person.
Friends I haven't seen in a while may recognize me when they bump into me, but I apparently have a puzzled look on my face as my brain tries to analyze their face.
After they identify themselves, I squint a little and then pull off an unimpressive performance, explaining to them how my mind was elsewhere at the moment they spotted me but I knew who they were all along. I never do. It's embarrassing.
It takes a while, but eventually, I come around.
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There is anonymity in privacy, which is why I'm a big fan of living in a large city (and am perfectly okay with it remaining that way). It's easy to keep people out of your business when you're surrounded by millions of other people.
That's not true in small towns, where even the most innocuous personal drama can be distorted. So when scandals happen (and trust that they do) they tend to captivate the local imagination in ways not seen in big cities.
People told us all about the latest drama in their neck of the woods after Redditor Pessimistic_Soviet asked the online community,
"Those of you who live in small towns, what is the current local controversy all about?"
"Dogs are now getting sick..."
"Thousands of crabs washed ashore dead but nobody really knows why; I think they blamed wind turbines at one point. Dogs are now getting really sick and there are warnings for people to stay away from the beach but nobody knows why it’s happening."
MariahCareyButt
It sounds like algae toxins, which wouldn't surprise me.
"The problem with that is..."
"While fleeing another hit and run, and possible DUI, some dude tried to go full speed directly thru the middle of our town square. The problem with that is we have a big historic fountain there. Traffic is usually supposed to swerve arround the fountain, he did not."
"This dude in a white SUV ramps into our fountain, and smashes into the center pillar. Thankfully the fountain was off for the winter, so there was less damage, but they still have no clue how, and how much money it's gonna take to fix this mess."
"The car was removed, but the fountain is still wrapped up in its tarp a month later. There's security cam footage of the ramp and its all anyone could talk about for a few weeks."
raven_1313
It sounds like that fountain is the town's pride and joy so it makes sense that everyone is a bit bent out of shape about it.
"A woman knows..."
"A woman known as a pretty awful person disappeared. 'Everyone' knows it was probably her husband, but the family owns over 10,000 acres and no body has been found. The rest of her family is ramping up an awareness campaign so should be interesting to see where this all goes."
Ordo501
I expect the Lifetime movie to drop any day now.
"A guy wanted to bury his parents..."
"A guy wanted to bury his parents on their (parents’) slightly rural, totally out of the way, virtually-no-neighbors property, but the village said no way. We don’t do that here. We’re classy."
"So he went to the state for permission to build a funeral home/crematorium instead, and he built a giant mausoleum with both their caskets right on the corner of the property where everyone and their grandma can see it when they drive by!"
"And he has zero plans to actually turn this into a functioning business. It’s about half done, no landscaping, and construction vehicles parked all over the place. Gotta hand it to him!"
Axel0812
Okay, this is petty (and brilliant) as all hell and I am LIVING for it.
"A couple promised..."
"A couple promised a lot of cakes and fancy breads to the local festival and didn't deliver. Everyone has been mad at them for the last two weeks."
ChangeWinter4443
I mean... wouldn't you be? We're talking about cakes AND fancy breads here.
"The girl's volleyball coach..."
"Town of about 1800. The girl's volleyball coach got a DWI. The school's principal went to pick her up from jail, and was arrested for DWI himself. Somehow it got out that these two (both married) were having an affair."
stickshaker73
In a small town how did they think they'd be able to keep any of that secret?
"Two places..."
"Two places make dill dip. One accused the other of stealing the recipe."
duckswithbanjos
This is the sort of drama that I can see being developed into an award-winning indie film.
"People here..."
"People here in my town of 396 are still upset that the local Christmas tree was taken down and thrown away with all the lights still on it."
Onlykitten
I mean... I get it. Sounds like a total waste.
"The woman who just got elected..."
"The woman who just got elected mayor owns most of the property downtown, and all the open seats on city council went to her employees. Can’t wait to see the corruption in action."
Blanchypants
Ha, how convenient. I wonder what her explanation for this was. Probably nothing satisfactory.
"Swans..."
"Swans in the local rivers/lakes have been dying from avian flu and we’ve all been warned to keep our dogs away from sick or dead swans in case infection spreads to humans."
allywillow
Need I remind you that we are in the middle of a global pandemic so I hope people do manage to keep their dogs away, just to be on the safe side!
There's something to be said about small towns – they somehow never fail to entertain us with all their drama.
It's fun to hear about it – definitely not as fun to live it.
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When was the last time you had sex?
Not to make people think about their sex lives (or lack thereof) during a global pandemic... but let me continue.
When was the last time you made love?
You might have different answers for both of these questions, come to think of it. Quite a few people draw a line between the two.
We heard their opinions after Redditor InternationalFun485 asked the online community,
"What is the difference to you between sex and making love?"
"Sex is about..."
"Sex is about the act, making love is about the person."
AbeForman
This is a pretty quick and easy way to put it – but can't sex (or the act) also be just as much about the person?
"My wife and I..."
"My wife and I generally refer to any sexual act between each other as making love, whether it's tender, rough, dirty whatever. If we refer to past sexual acts with other partners we often call it f*cking, because the emotional connection wasn't there."
MischiefStudio
The parameters certainly start to look more different to a lot of people once they have a long-term and successful relationship?
"Making love..."
"Making love is when you're trying to f*ck a person's soul."
Panhead09
Awww, sweet, sweet poetry.
"The level..."
"The level of intense emotions you feel, putting your partner's wants first before yours and vice versa."
oRideofLife
Give and take – as they say.
"Sex [equals]..."
"Sex = fulfilling a primal, instinctual need. Making love = fulfilling an emotional, spiritual need."
mediaG33K
A succinct way to put it!
"Senses are over the top..."
"You can have sex with anyone. Making love in the other hand is when both of you are really feeling each other. Senses are over the top, your heart is pounding hard and you can’t stop thinking about the person you having sex with."
ordanarydude
How dare you bring back such pleasant memories!
"You can have sex without..."
"You can have sex without a emotional connection but you can’t truly make love without having a true connection."
Alert-Cranberry691
It seems a lot of people, probably most people, would agree with this assessment.
"I've always hated the expression..."
"I’ve always hated the expression making love.' I don't know why, I’m a pretty emotional and romantic person, but it skeeves me out. I know you love me, so f*ck me about it."
YaBoyfriendKeefa
You almost had us in the first half there, not gonna lie.
"Sex is just..."
"Sex is just the physical part. Making love is the whole experience with foreplay and cuddling, and you don't want to leave when it's over. You have to be in love to make love."
BlackLetterLies
This is fair... which begs the question – when was the last time you were in love?
"The biggest difference to me..."
"The biggest difference to me is passion and romance. Do you actually like the person or are you just having sex?"
The_UNLUCKY7
Hey, hey, hey...
No need to keep us at night, okay?
It seems there is somewhat of a general consensus here, no?
Ask your partner – what do they have to say? The answer might surprise you... or excite you.
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