Stupid Employee Stories

Each year brings with it plenty of examples of employees caught doing dumb things while on the job, and 2012 was no exception. From the auto-dealership worker who was accused of faking her own kidnapping to the small-town clerk who stole $53 million from taxpayers to the teacher who allegedly ordered her ...

Every year is filled with stories of employees who -- to put it diplomatically -- didn't think before acting. And 2011 was no exception. Whether it was the Chick-fil-A cashier in Southern California who substituted derogatory words for two Asian customers' real names on their receipts or the Indonesian ...

By Tiffany Miller, Payscale.com Call it what you want -- canned, laid-off, pink-slipped, downsized. Getting fired is devastating. Most folks fight back the tears, pack up their cubes and get the hell out. But not everyone's experience is the same. Some workers roll out in style. ...

What the police officer claimed was that six unidentified men started shooting at him while he was on personal protection duty at the house of a former politician, and that they hit him three times, in the stomach and arm, then sped away. ...

We're not sure who had the worst judgment: the advertising agency creative who came up with the campaign linking mixed drinks at a local Mexican restaurant chain to the cyanide-laced Kool-aid that killed hundreds of Jim Jones' cult members, or the restaurant executive who gave the OK to plaster the ads on ...

People do the craziest things on the job. Sometimes they get fired, sometimes they get arrested... usually it's pretty funny stuff. We scour the headlines and bring you the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful business news from across the globe. Read on... ...