Posted on 01/30/2009 11:25:52 AM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion
Everyone always thinks they have it worse than the next guy. Your boss is always the nastiest; your co-workers are the most annoying; and there's no way anyone has a more awful cube mate.
Until now.
The sad truth is that there's nothing like learning about other people's troubles to make you feel better about your own. Just when you thought you had it bad, someone else comes along to make your problems seem irrelevant.
The terrible employees from CareerBuilder.com's second annual list of "Worst Employees of the Year" are no exception. Last year's employees stole, cheated, scammed, assaulted, lied, got arrested, used illegal drugs and committed lewd acts. The qualifiers from 2008 showed more of the same.
In no particular order, here are 10 of 2008's worst employees and the extreme things they did. (They will make your crazy co-workers seem like angels.)
Worst employee No. 1: Marie Cooley, architect
The story: After seeing an ad in the paper for a job that sounded like hers, Cooley thought her company was planning to fire her. For revenge, she attempted to sabotage theJacksonville, Fla.-based business by destroying $2.5 million worth of computer files. Cooley told investigators she went into work over the weekend, got angry, disconnected internal power cables and deleted files from the server. She was arrested and charged with damaging computer equipment. (Source: News4Jax.com)
Worst employee No. 2: Charlena Graham, deputy coroner
The story: Graham,of Augusta, Ga., plead guilty to stealing $325 in gift cards from a deceased woman. Graham obtained the woman's personal belongings after her death; her family alerted authorities that the gift cards might be missing. Graham was sentenced to seven years probation. She was also ordered to pay back the $325 within 90 days and pay $5,000 in fines. (Source: NBC Augusta.)
Worst employees No. 3: William Vinyard, Christopher Stephens, Stacy Vining and George C. Phelps, firefighters and EMTs
The story: Four employees of the Marion County (Fla.) Emergency Medical Services Alliance were arrested and accused of grand theft for collecting pay upwards of $20,000 per person for hours they didn't work. A police news release stated that several part-time EMS paramedics were clocking in for each other, exchanging badges and not actually working the hours for which they were paid. All employees have resigned or been suspended without pay from their full-time jobs. (Source: The Star-Banner, Ocala, Fla.)
Worst employee No. 4: Judge Robert Restaino
The story: Restaino was hearing domestic violence cases in his Niagara Falls, N.Y., courtroom when a cell phone rang. After no one owned up to the phone, Restaino "snapped" and jailed all 46 people who were in the courtroom. New York's top court removed him as a city court judge, saying punishing innocent people is "inexcusable." (Source: Associated Press)
Worst employee No. 5: Karen Baer, teller supervisor
The story: In an FBI affidavit, Baer admitted to taking $10,000 at a time over several years from the Westminster, Md., bank where she worked as a teller. She told investigators that she used the money for vacations, bills and college tuition for her kids. She is facing federal embezzlement charges of more than $1 million. (Source: Baltimore News)
Worst employee No. 6: Jarrod Hankins, court bailiff
The story: Hankins forgot to remove a woman from a courthouse holding cell in northern Arkansas when he failed to contact the sheriff's office transport personnel to take the woman back to the county jail, according to officials. She spent four nights locked in a room without food, water or a toilet. Hankins was suspended for 30 days without pay. (Source: 4029TV.com)
Worst employee No. 7: Robert Irvine, chef and TV personality
The story: Irvine embellished and fabricated the more impressive parts of his résumé, including claiming to have cooked for the British royal family; catering to four U.S. presidents; and helping to make Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake. His contract with the Food Network was terminated. (Source: St Petersburg (Fla.) Times)
Worst employee No. 8: Jamie Day, bartender
The story: Day was arrested after a patron at a bar in Alton, Ill., called police to complain that Day was bartending in her birthday suit. She was charged with misdemeanor lewd entertainment. The county suspended the tavern's liquor license for 30 days and fined the owner $500. (Source: Fox News)
Worst employee No. 9: Pythias Brown, transportation security agent
The story: Brown was allegedly stealing items from checked luggage in the back rooms of the airport in Newark, N.J., where he worked, making off with more than $200,000 worth of travelers' belongings. The stolen goods included a camera belonging to a CNN employee who found it for sale on eBay. Police discovered 66 cameras, 31 laptops, jewelry and more in Brown's home. (Source: Yahoo! Technology)
Worst employee No. 10: Patricia Villegas, beautician
The story: Villegas was convicted of giving two clients fake cosmetic injections, which resulted in facial disfigurement. The women paid $2,000 for what they were told were beauty enhancers using collagen and cortisone, but were actually similar to silicone. Villegas, of Flushing, N.Y., was found guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and scheme to defraud. She faces up to 14 years in prison.
Michael Chertoff should be on the list for leaving the southern border of the United States wide open while grandma has to take off her shoes at the airport.
9 guilty,1 not guilty,your honor.
Why isn’t Franklin Raines on that list?
If you’re referring to the nude bartender, then also guilty;
http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2008/12/jamie-day-bartender-arrest-photo.html
Who was the pathetic moron who called police?
She should be given a raise and the moron banned from the pub.
I guess we’ll have to wait til the 2008 list comes out to read about Rod Blago and Henry Paulson.
Yipes! I withdraw my pardon!
Okay, if she looked like Helen Thomas or Hillary then I can see it but, if not, what exactly was the problem? The way I look at it is that she was helping her employer bring in customers (I suspect the patron complaining looked like Helen or Hillary)
Did you see her picture?
All ten guilty, yer honor.
I have considered new evidence and changed my vote!
A whole lot of stuff that’s behind the average commercial bar is at crotch height or lower. Do you really want to know why there’s a hair in your scotch?
Rod Blagojevich: Attempted to sell an Illinois Senate Seat. Was caught, impeached, and removed from office. He continues to plead his innocence and likens himself to Gandi, Martin Luther King, and other honorable people. He also related his arrest and trial to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Needless to say no one was amused or feels sorry for this criminal.
IIRC, she had misunderstood the situation and it wasn't actually her job that was being advertised, so the damage she caused her employer was for no reason at all.
Of course, they did advertise for a replacement for her, but that was after the fact ...
That photo doesn’t show any parts of a naked woman I’d be interested in...
Well, if you put it that way...
The story: Irvine embellished and fabricated the more impressive parts of his résumé, including claiming to have cooked for the British royal family; catering to four U.S. presidents; and helping to make Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake. His contract with the Food Network was terminated. (Source: St Petersburg (Fla.) Times)
This guys show is still on the Food Network. The show is called Dinner Impossible and there are different scenarios where he shows up and has to oversee the preparation of meals for large groups of people in a very short amount of time with some special requirements that need to be met. He is British and to me he seems like he knows what he is doing but he can be a real jerk sometimes to the people who are assigned to help him prepare the meals. It is, or at least was, an entertaining show.
Well, I hope that it’s Mr. Smith and not Mrs. Mith.
GUILTY!!! GUILTY!!!! Now what do I do about my eyes?!?!?!
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