New guy at my job, polish dude. He seemed decent enough, just a bit… odd… but most of us were; after all, we were the kind of people who are willing to work on ships on the wrong side of the world for weeks, sometimes months at a time.
I trained him to do the job I did, so he could run opposite of my shift, with some assistance from the chief tech and various others. The rest of the crew were pretty experienced, so it made it easier when he needed help with the more complex stuff. He did reasonably OK for a newhire. Nothing spectacularly good, but nothing spectacularly bad either.
Until the crewing department told us he had been arrested back home, multiple counts of murder, and we were unlikely to have him onboard again, so we needed to train his replacement.
Turned out he was a serial killer who killed people for their properties. He’s in prison now, and I’m sure you can google the person. I’m not sure what his actual name was, but we called him Winny. Any poles here who happen to remember the case and could link a news article? This happened roughly 10 years ago.
Holy shit, that’s wild.
Long time ago my boss
tells me to make an SSH account called “companyname” with password “companyname123”
I refused, that’s stupid, it’s a security nightmare waiting to happen. I’ll happily make a different account and you know, make you use a good password
No, you MUST do this.
Okay, I protest, but orders are orders
Fast forward 2 months. Servwr gets hacked, through that account. Boss tales awayy year bonus because of this.
YOU FORCED ME TO DO THIS! !
yes I did but you are still responsible for the security of all the servers. This server was hacked, and because of that you will be denied your bonus
The stupidity that some people can display is amazing, really
Dude, how do you even get out of this? That’s really shitty man.
You find a better job, then you quit
But I’ll be honest, looking back at that job, that xompani really sucked the joy out of my life. Not the only company that did that either
I had a brief stint in a shit hole during COVID lockdowns. This old dude started and it turned out his wife and the lady in charge were friends. He was one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met. He legit had someone else’s glasses on and didn’t know until the other guy was trying to find his. He said he thought it was weird that he couldn’t see properly. He also seen a few guys with face screens rather than masks and he wanted one. We told him you can get them from health and safety, so off he goes. Comes back and says they’re awful, you can’t see shit out of them. He hadn’t removed the protective covering…
I’ve worked with some apes in my time but I’ve no idea how this guy got so far in life without dying or something
My father had his own business and at some point he had an assistant who is one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met. Her husband was an idiot too. At one point she was angry with him because he bought a “real” leather jacket out of some Russian guy’s trunk on some rest stop on the highway.
I traveled for a wedding where they’d rented out a whole place for guests to stay. They were just a little short of rooms and the first night I had to share a room with a friend. Older than me, has ADHD (I think I do too, but he has it in spades), kind of a mess. I woke up in the morning and couldn’t find my glasses. Sure enough, he got up before me, grabbed mine without knowing they weren’t his… Got them back later slightly mangled. Good times.
He wasn’t dumb, but he could be startlingly oblivious about some things.
I once worked with a Puerto Rican. I’m not being racist, he literally couldn’t go more than an hour without reminding someone he was from Puerto Rico. He tried playing it like some kind of race card at least once a day. One time I heard one of my coworkers say loudly from across the room “No, being Puerto Rican has nothing to do with it. I don’t like you because you’re stupid.”
Edited because this was a personal and limited-time only, story about my past. I don’t want this to keep lying around forever. Ask me in person if you want to hear it again :)
A couple come to mind
The guy who ran a porn server from work. Was finally caught when the internet bill was huge and the cio and a tech tracked it through the network to his port. Waited until he walked away for a minute and when he came back found them on hands and knees about to pull the network cable from the server under his desk. Apparently he was making quite a bit off it too. His first words were ‘I’m fired, aren’t I?’
A woman who lied constantly. She’d claim we built something other than what we were asked to make, and the only defense was to show her the email where she asked for exactly what she got. We learned to document everything with her.
Funny side story. When I joined, all bright eyed and energetic, they assigned me to support her. No warning. I went on and created some software for her, only to get screamed at an blamed for made up reasons. I thought I was about to get fired… Turns out my team was kind of being assholes too. They all decided not to tell me anything to see if a fresh unbiased person had issues too.
When I worked in the south we had a fellow that decided because he got fired by a black woman that everyone was a racist despite there being zero racial tension in the store other than his personal vendetta. He came back and tried to murder the most patently inoffensive skinny white dude in the the parking lot. He throttled him and was yelling he was an ___ lover because he was friendly with everyone. So its 1AM at Walmart and I go charging across the parking lot with zero plan. I ended up getting his attention then backpedaling at which point his victim had fled and he realized there was nothing else to do and ran off himself. I tried to give the cop the shirt that somehow rednecks feel like they need to shed before they “get physical” with someone and got only an offended look in return. They didn’t even take a statement.
Same Walmart we had a fellow that was very clearly a recovering addict of some kind who want from hyper religious praise Jeebus to sullen and increasingly angry. He got to the point where he was showing up to get paid but wouldn’t do much work and would ride his bike around the backroom. I remember him becoming convinced we were all Satanic because we were talking about a fantasy setting. He told us we need to find Jesus I quiped “Does he provide an experience bonus” Not long after that we had cops monitoring the exit to ensure nobody got murdered on the way out. I’m not sure exactly what he said when they fired him but I understand threats were made.
Same store there was the boss who turned on the electic door motor while I was fixing it causing the little hand crank to go flying across the room like a spear.
Then there was the fellow who would just NOT stop stealing shit like blatantly who was eventually at long last fired for stealing root beer.
A moron who was hired to be my boss, even though they didn’t tell me that was the case – who, with a straight face, dead serious, and with an undeserved authority befitting a piece of shit, told me that Object-oriented programming was a fad. This was in 2008, 30-40 years after OOP was first introduced to the world.
Brian
God damn it Brian
I worked with John Doe, who said no woman could tell him what to do, not even his wife. His new boss was a woman who wasn’t having his shit. He quit after a few months.
Worked with a murderer who was living under a fake name, back in the 90s. But he was actually fine.
There were probably terrible people at that job, but I don’t remember… Oh, the first actual real, live creationist I ever met was at that job.
I worked with Aaron Barr
He went on to be CEO of HBGary, a federal contractor. He claimed he could dox Anonymous. It didn’t go well for him.
