35 of the Funniest Complaints Received by HR

‘Some staff wanted me to arrange an exorcism’
35 of the Funniest Complaints Received by HR

There are plenty of instances when HR does nothing to help the employees who reach out to them. But in fairness, it does seem like some HR personnel may have been pushed to the edge by baseless (yet hilarious) employee complaints.

One Redditor received a complaint that hinged on the fact that their office had a singular toilet. The complainant became convinced that his coworker was deliberately going into the restroom before him and dropping massive stinkers, thereby forcing him to “marinade in the smell” when it was his time to use the facilities. However, since using the bathroom as intended isn’t a crime, HR’s solution was to provide a can of air freshener. Of course, the pooper never used it, leading to a separate but equally hilarious complaint. 

Other HR workers have shared grievances just as delusional, including loud sneezes, printer locations and a “haunted” office.

daveyhh 6y ago | once got reported to human resources for not saying good morning to a coworker. 12 ...
UnscarredVoice 6y ago At a former job, all of our team members got in pulled in 1 by 1 about who was farting. Someone had complained to HR and my boss was like I can't believe I have to ask you this but... are you the one passing gas constantly?. It wasn't me and tbh, I never smelled anything. 33 ...
ChillyWillyTM . 6y ago I once had an employee tell me a fellow employee who sits near him had a distinct old man smell. Turned out the employee in question sprouted mung beans on a damp paper towel in their desk drawer, very nutritious but they smell like death. 37 ...
Alexxm 6y ago When my mum worked in HR she had to deal with several complaints about male employees playing a hide the poop game 40
punkwalrus 6y ago Previous job I worked with some huge asshole across the hall. I won't go into why he was an asshole, but one of the things he did was turn me into HR because I had a mini catapult on my desk (a desk toy) that shot mini marshmallows. Не claimed it was a weapon and HR called me to clarify. When I told her what it was, she sighed, and said if I took it home, she wouldn't make a case out of it. So I took it home. - 267 ...
DraconianXP 6y ago This employee is looking at me funny. Like funny how? I don't know but he needs to stop or I'm getting a lawyer. Research and find out they've never been in the same room. 89 ...
 6y ago I was reported to HR for not making enough sandwiches. I was on an 8 hour shift, alone, and the person who closed the day before had done nothing. I had to make all the salads, do the chickens, all the cleaning, plus stock, expiries, ect. There was no time, and not to mention I didn't get a single break, because the manager wouldn't let us eat in the office and I couldn't leave the department. I ultimately quit, since the manager did this to me all the time, and never went after the other staff. 51
whiteboykilla 6y ago I was an HR manager for a large machine shop. One of the welders was a lesbian female. Her and her partner wanted to have a child. So she was asking all her co-workers for sperm so she could get pregnant. She could not afford to purchase from a doctor she said. All the guys were creeped out and ask that she stop. | had to write her up for solicitation in the work place. Haha I think one of the guys ended up giving her some. - 45 ...
poofsgoesthekitth 6y ago | once had to mediate a conversation between two software engineers. One was convinced the other had installed an extra bright bulb in their desk lamp, just to antagonize the other. The end result was me crawling around in a dark, dank storage closet to find a bulb that would allow all of us to get in with our lives. 43 ...
Moontoya 6y ago Not HR but a complaint raised against me Hostile and unfriendly behaviour I had to explain to the head of HR that the complainant had walk up behind me whilst I was relieving myself at a urinal, launching into a detailed explanation of their computer problem. Rather than say shut the fuck up, reboot your pc and leave me alone I replied please log a ticket for me So yeah, prompting them to follow the proper procedure, never mind accosting me whilst urinating was me being hostile... The complaint was promptly filed in the under desk circular
TyRyansaurus-Rex 6y ago Not HR, but Worker's Comp. We just had an associate file a claim this week because they burnt their mouth on their lunch. A lunch they brought from home and heated up in the microwave. - 211 ...
rubbersoul-93 6y ago We had an employee walk out in the middle of 3rd shift, leaving 1 person alone to do all the work. Не came back a week later and asked us to write it up like he'd been let go because he wanted to file unemployment. Obviously we wouldn't do that. 352 ...
journey_j 6y ago friend in charge of hiring at his company got massive complaints from a job applicant..for not hiring him. 380 ...
mikanOrange . 6y ago . Edited 6y ago There was one guy complaining that his coworker was mimicking his get up and personality. Said that it's identity theft
dancingfruit 6y ago I was the one being complained about. A patient had asked if it was okay to remove her IV fluids cos she was going home. She was one of those people who was very convinced that if we took her fluids out, she would die. (She was admitted for the common cold, and uses her insurance to pay like this so she didn't have to spend a dime.) Anyway, I told her that it's okay ma'am, we're just running 'regular saline water' through your IV. No more meds. You can go home today and we can take
ninjajedifox 6y ago We had a complaint that the toilet roll holders were to low in the stalls because when a guy was taken a poo his knees were hitting the holders. We then lifted all the stalls toilet roll holders 8 inches on whole company site so no knees would hit the toilet roll holders. No complaints since. HR working for the people! 1.1K ...
jimmydushku 6y ago Not HR, but my friend who is recently told me about a VP at his company making a post on Linkedln with one of the new employees as his #WCW (Woman Crush Wednesday). The WCW lady was happy about it. The complaint came from two women who didn't get the promotion to that position. 1K ...
SemiPseudoFinance 6y ago It was lunch time, a client came in. My colleague was eating a sausage roll and had it on his desk. Next day a formal complaint came through about my colleagues sausage roll and how unprofessional it was of him to have a sausage roll he was eating on his desk. 716 ...
mdg_roberts1 . 6y ago She came in with a complaint that she tried to give one of the younger guys a hug and he refused. His story was that he basically had to run away. I had to explain to a middle age woman that it was not her right to hug people who didn't want to be hugged. She still didn't get it and left thinking she was still in the right. 589 ...
danetrain05 6y ago I worked in HR and my coworker hated me. She wanted someone else to get the job I did and she would complain about me to management for anything. The final straw for everyone was when I sneezed and she slammed her keyboard on her desk, basically ran out of the room and didn't come back for 30 minutes. Management called me in and said I was making too much noise. I told them | sneezed and they said she would complain about me every day so they didn't believe her but had to make it look
yankee-white 6y ago Edited 6y ago You wouldn't believe the headaches that I received when management signed a new copier/printer lease which reduced the overall number of printers in exchange for centrally located multiplex copiers. Evidently, people feel their social standing is signified by if they have a printer (or two) in their office. My favorite was an Executive Assistant who stated that, because she wears heels to work she couldn't walk to the new copier and requested that a reasonable accommodation would be to replace the printer she had in her office. - 1.7K ...
upyourbumchum 6y ago 20 years in HR. 2 female employees visited me to complain that their female team member didn't wear underwear under her work pants. - 1.5K ...
Alkalined13 6y ago An employee used very derogatory terms to make fun of a customer who was in the back of the store... while talking to the customer who was at the counter. Who happened to be the other customer's mother. Yikes. 2.1K ...
rainbowLena 6y ago My partner is in HR. Someone took a shit on the job site. Не was given a photo complete with measurements. The people that complained wanted DNA testing done. He's still not sure why they measured it. 2.2K ...
TLR_831_411 e 4y ago Not the most ridiculous but one of my favs.. I had an employee try and fight her attendance point for being tardy because she got lost in the beauty of the day and forgot to exit off the highway. | shouldn't penalize someone for admiring God's creation. - 41 ...
SJExit4 4y ago Had several employees come in to report a hurt goose in the parking lot. I suggested that they call animal control, and they got salty that I didn't jump up and run outside. They didn't understand why it wasn't HR's job to trap and give medical care to wild animals. - 28 ...
BallgownBeefJerky . 4y ago . Edited 4y ago HR Business Partner In the break room, one woman was showing her co-workers the dating profile of a guy she had been talking to online. Guy happened to be the husband of one of the co-workers she was showing. The supervisor came to me panicked & didn't find me very helpful when I informed him this was not a work issue & they just need to keep it out the workplace. - 15 ...
atomic_mermaid 4y ago Some staff wanted me to arrange an exorcism because they were convinced their work building was haunted. 21 ...
NativeOne81 4y ago HR Director A tenured employee quit, tearfully stating during an exit interview that we could have kept her talents on board had we simply offered more food days/catered pizza lunches. This was an employee already on the radar for FMLA abuse. She was back re-applying in about 6 months. She was not rehired. - 12 ...
thetenofswords 6y ago My work has one men's toilet. Had one coworker complain that another guy kept using the bathroom before him, and doing big ol' poos. But the way he said it was like this guy knew when he was about to go, ninja'd in just before him, dropped a massive stinker and then forced the other guy to marinade in the smell when he went for a leak afterwards. We ended up adding a can of air freshener to the bathroom, and the next complaint that came in was the poo guy never used it. ... - 4K
BunnyBunny13 6y ago She wanted to lodge a complaint against a colleague who had a new TV delivered to the office instead of home, and she thought her colleague's spending money on the TV was irresponsible. 551 ...
nennern 6y ago Edited 6y ago I'm not in HR, but someone called HR on me. I work with a few people that aren't that fluent in english. One of my coworkers was trying to explain to me what kind of tacos he ate and could not rememeber the word for stingrays. So he took my notebook and drew a picture of a stingrays and wrote the word turtle. So it looked like this: crudely drawn stingray+the word turtle. A lady I work with went through my notebook, saw the picture of the stingray plus the word turtle. She called
tahituatara 6y ago I told my coworker as professionally as I could that it wasn't appropriate for her to be using her phone while at work, teaching kids (supposedly). She spent all her time on Facebook, little kids would be screaming and whaling on each other literally 10 feet away and she was totally oblivious. She complained by email to HR that I was rude and confrontational. They pulled me aside and told me to be more careful about how I spoke to coworkers. I told them my side of the story, they spoke to her again. She got a
anywherebutarizona 6y ago Hr Consultant for 10+ years. You won't believe the amount of times I've had to shut people down for trying to sell their pyramid scheme side hustle in the office. 6K ...
teenieweeniebeenie 6y ago i'm in hr, but also the complaint was about me. i have type one diabetes, was having a high blood sugar and feeling a bit sick one day. coworker comes in and asks if i'm alright, i reply with, yeah, i'm just high right now. needless to say, my boss laughed her ASS off when i had to explain myself. 16 ...

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