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HR nightmares: Are these the worst employees ever?

HR nightmares: Are these the worst employees ever?

Different employers have shared stories about the worst workers they have ever had on an AskReddit poll.

The horror stories included watching pornography on the company computer, using drugs and stealing the company car and being drunk on the job, the Daily Mail reports.

One Reddit user called Guyuter revealed that one of his drivers was let go because he “dropped acid, took the car into New York City, went to a rave and then lost the car.”

The user Majoichigo worked at a mobile phone shop. He wrote: “We had computer stations for setting up new contracts and customers in the front of the house. It was the guy’s first day: we hear noises coming from the front of the store. There were definitely customers in the store and he loaded up porn on the front computer. He said he was doing ‘research for a friend’.

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