‘What’s the biggest HR cock-up that you’ve witnessed?’ – 17 most eye-opening corporate catastrophes

10.
‘Turned up at work one day and my pass wasn’t active, I couldn’t get in the building. Buzzed security so they came in and explained that I had been fired as I’d turned up the first day and then not for six weeks

‘I demanded my manager and he came along, confused, as I’d been in every shift

‘Apparently my clock in card didn’t work so they’d never known I was there. I worked for an agency and they had a different way of keeping attendance, so I’d been paid every week’
-_Calmarkel

11.
‘One place I worked at, security came up to someone at their desk and marched them straight out the door in front of everyone.

‘He had, apparently, been watching porn at work and had been dismissed as soon as HR found out.

‘Next week he was back at his desk.

‘They’d sacked the wrong person.

‘Someone else was quietly let go. I can’t imagine what the conversation was like when they asked him to come back.’
-PickaxeJunky

12.
‘I once worked for a UK local authority (don’t judge me). HR accidentally sent out a spreadsheet with every job title listed, with its salary, instead of just sending it to a director. Imagine the amusement as literally hundreds of staff launched grievances about pay disparity. Ended up costing the council circa £10m against an annual budget of £100m to settle the grievances.’
-KibboKid

13.
‘Found letters firing people on the shared Google drive (including one for me!!)

‘I called them up on it and in the end didn’t get fired as I had some leverage in the end…’
-BrisTing123

14.
‘I got added to a private Slack channel discussing a colleague’s disciplinary, with a bunch of messages advising the manager heading the investigation on how to phrase questions to make them difficult to respond to.’
-hunsnet457

15.
‘Our HR once emailed the CXO bonus and salary letters to all employees by mistake. Lol. Was a big scandal for a few days to realise we were earning peanuts.’
-Apprehensive_Sun1762

16.
‘A job application template being uploaded prepopulated with an old candidate’s details. GDPR nightmare’
-paulieD4ngerously

17.
‘At my old job- we all got an email informing us that we were going to get a Christmas bonus worth 20% of our salary. Insane! The office erupted with cheers. 10 mins later, the email was recalled and none of us could access it. An hour after that, HR sent an email stating that the email was “sent to the wrong people”, and we would only be getting a 5% bonus. So who was getting the 20% bonus? The directors of course ‘
-Lemonslemonslemons8

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