Mostly Funny HR Stories

File 26:  In today’s file, the team is going to lighten-up the conversation with some funny HR stories they’ve either experienced or heard about. 

Before we begin, we’d like to encourage you to send us your funny HR stories, via the Workforce Therapy Files website.  We might read them on an upcoming file.

Sleeping on the Job Stories

Story 1

Molley begins with a personal example from her “first real job.”  She wanted to talk with one of the leaders.  She knew he was in the office.  She knocked on his office door repeatedly.  Finally, the door opened.  She was shocked.  She asked if he had been sleeping at his desk, because there was an imprint of his watch on his forehead!  Molley later explains that the guy and his wife had recently had their firstborn, so he may have been justifiably, sleep-deprived.

Stories 2, 3 and 4

Jason also has some sleeping stories.  Jason worked at a distribution, during a newly-created 2^nd shift.  There weren’t many trucks coming it on 2^nd shift.  The supervisors created some busy work for the employees, between trucks.  Jason was sweeping a long aisle in the warehouse.  Suddenly, he hears, “Hey dude.”  It startled him, so he began looking around to see where the voice came from.  He looked up to find his co-worker napping on the 3^rd level of the rack shelves.  Jason climbed up to find and entire sleeping space the guy had created.  After assuring his co-worker that they were cool, he climbed back down and just continued sleeping.

There was another role in which Jason knew a co-worker in the office was falling asleep at his desk.  Jason would ask him what he was doing and the guy’s head would pop-up and the guy mumbled, “Praying.”  It happened often enough that Jason had to eventually dismiss the guy.

In his final sleeping story, Jason describes a small office he worked in, years ago.  They had an admin at the front desk.  Early one morning, the boss unlocked the main door and walked in.  All the lights were out, so she continued back to her own office.  When she came back out, the admin guy was sitting at his desk.  The bell on the front door hadn’t chimed, but he claimed he’d been there the whole time.  The boss knew she’d just walked past the empty desk.  The admin finally relented and admitted that he’d been asleep under