u/SethmAR15 via Reddit
December 24, 2021, 10:58 am
Just about everyone has had an awful boss or 12 in their lifetime, but some really cross the line from “awful” to “unethical” to sometimes even “illegal.” And there isn’t always an outlet for employees to talk about what’s going on — complaints to human resources or management might go unheeded, or they may feel like going above their boss’s head isn’t even an option.
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Regardless, that’s where Reddit and its wonderful anonymity comes into play. User SethmAR15 asked fellow Redditors to share the “most unethical thing a boss has ever asked you to do” and the responses absolutely poured in.
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Buckle up, these get sketchy.
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Look the other way while he embezzled millions of dollars. I did not.
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Asked me via text if I (33m) would give him (60ish m) a massage, and that he only wears a towel.
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Not me, but a supervisor overextended on a reno to his home, so he tried to get a special needs employee to take out a loan for him..really sleazy…
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I worked as a personal trainer years ago and the owner of the gym i worked in told me to have my clients get results slower so they would buy more training.
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Old boss asked me to find out his ex business partners families addresses so he could buy their homes they rented for whatever price necessary and evict them out of spite.
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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.
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I worked at an Italian butcher shop in high-school. The owner would tell me if I ever encountered mold on the meat; to just wipe it off with some olive oil on a paper towel and put it back on display….
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At Dunkin I was asked to go take product from our store to another one 15 minutes away. This was during my shift. She demanded I clocked out so that if I got in an accident, the company wouldn’t get booked. I quit not too long after that.
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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.
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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 bullshit on his part. To this day I will never regret standing my ground.
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Loaded unknown chemicals into the nose of tractor trailers for out of state transport. I’m sure it was all illegally dumped. Just out of HS I had no idea the scope of what was happening. Nothing was labeled, containers, trailers and manifests all claimed empty containers.
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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.
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A boss I worked with asked me to help another manager in the financial department to do a homework he had to do as part of a master degree. The manager was doing a master in computer science management and took a dev class. I’m an IT engineer. He wanted to pay me to code the work he had to do: a basic calculator program in Java. I refused, for ethical reason.
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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… 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 to much longer after that, I got a decent raise 6months later.
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I had to help my boss work at another store when I was working at Aeropostale. After we left the store, we stopped at some guy’s house. She asked me to wait in the car and text her if anyone pulled up. I found out later she was having an affair with this married guy. This happened a bunch of times. I just thought it was a friend or something. She was going in there and having sex with this guy while I was the lookout!! Sea-
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[At] Dollar Tree, most of my cashiers were teenagers or dipshits 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 shit himself because I’m not about to do his dirty work.
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I used to be a behavioral therapist for kids on the autism spectrum disorder & was a shadow aide at school for one of my clients. One day my kiddo’s classmate comes up to me and tells me how he has seen his dad hit his mom multiple times.. I end up calling my supervisor to inform him of what happened (I was 18 and had no idea of how mandated reporting worked). He told me next time to “mind my business” when I asked him the process for calling Child Protective Services … of course I called CPS and had the emergency hotline social worker walk me through the process.
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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.
*First Published: December 24, 2021, 10:58 am
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