Latest / NO FILTER / He Tried to Hide Alcohol in a Coffee Cup

Transcript

He Tried to Hide Alcohol in a Coffee Cup · NO FILTER

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: My bookkeeper had been cutting himself two checks every single week.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: He shows up drunk. Oh, gosh. Right. Not a little off.
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: Drunk.
• 0:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
• 0:09
  Speaker 5: He says, please hire my son so he can help
• 0:12
  Speaker 5: me pay for my new teeth.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: He had it in a cup and was just trying
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: to make it.
• 0:17
  Speaker 4: Like a tumbler?
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, you know.
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: That's what the closeted alcohol is to. Just some coffee.
• 0:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: This is The Bad Hire, the show with the best
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: stories about the worst employees.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: We fired him, of course.
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: People are crazy.
• 0:30
  Speaker 5: It's like an HR nightmare.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Right? One bad hire stole all of it.
• 0:35
  Speaker 4: Crazy stuff. She got what she deserved.
• 0:38
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Ken Monroe, and every week we dive
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: into real-life stories from from the wild world of work
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: and what can happen when the wrong person gets the job.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: These stories aren't just crazy. They're cautionary tales about lessons
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: learned the hard way. Let's get started. Hey, everyone, and
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: welcome back to The Bad Hire, the show where the
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: best stories about the... Worst hires. Worst hires come together.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: And I'm joined by Morgan.
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: Hey, guys.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Emma.
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Awesome to have you. You guys always do
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: such a great job. We're the OGs.
• 1:22
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: Do what?
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: This is the OG cast right here.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: You are OGs. Yep.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: Every episode does not perform as well unless us two
• 1:30
  Speaker 5: are on it. I'm just going to say.
• 1:31
  Speaker 4: It's a common denominator. I'm just kidding.
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: So... Yeah, I think that might be right. It doesn't
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: matter if I'm on there or not. It just really
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: matters who's on the couch.
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the drill. Every week we dive into
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: the wildest, weirdest, and most jaw-dropping hiring fails from offices,
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: job sites, organizations all over the country. And don't forget
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: we're running that $ 10, 000 contest. So submit your story. You know,
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: who knows? Everyone who hires people has a story. So
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: you can send it in, shoot your shot, chance to
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: win $ 10, 000. All right. So I don't know.
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: It's the easiest way to win $ 10, 000 I've ever heard of.
• 2:22
  Speaker 5: So might as well try.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Take 10 minutes, jot your story down. Can you imagine
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: your 10 minutes, you put your story down and the
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: next thing you know.
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: Gosh, I should probably drop down a story or two.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: You get a bonus, 10,000 bucks. Yeah.
• 2:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: Me and Emma would love to enter if we could,
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: but we can't.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: It's the 27th show.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We've learned a lot. Yeah. We have. I was
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: thinking about how we started.
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: Changed studios.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: Down to the studios in Charlotte.
• 2:53
  Speaker 5: Changed filming rooms in our own office. Created our own studio.
• 2:55
  Speaker 5: It's been kind of crazy.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: I think our one-year anniversary is... This July or August?
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: Craziness.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. All right. How about this? I'll start
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: it off. Okay. So, I'm an HR director at an
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: inpatient psychiatric and substance abuse treatment center. Okay. Okay. Normal Monday.
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: Running new hiring orientation, new contractor coming in.
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: He shows up drunk. Oh, gosh.
• 3:30
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: Not a little. Not a little off. Drunk.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: Right. At an addiction treatment facility.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: We get a lot of stories like these.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Or, like, people show up to a job. They're like, yeah,
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: I don't like talking on the phone.
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: It's either my angel center.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: This dude shows up to a treatment center as a
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: contractor to do some work. He shows up drunk.
• 3:55
  Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Like maybe that, you know, these treatment center people, they
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: would never notice a drunk person. Right. So we pull
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: him aside and give him a reasonable suspicion alcohol test.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Also.
• 4:07
  Speaker 4: As he should.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: He blows high. High enough that she's genuinely concerned.
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: So we wait the required 30 minutes.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: How did he even get there?
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: Sorry. I interrupted you.
• 4:17
  Speaker 6: Did you drink a lot?
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: How did he get there?
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: You drink a lot. Oh, like how did he drive there?
• 4:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 4:22
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: Good question.
• 4:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: He drove over. His mother dropped him off.
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: Or he's like, I got drunk in the parking lot.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 4:29
  Speaker 4: Pre-gaming work, if you will.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: That will totally be true. So we wait the required
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: 30 minutes and we retest him. He blows higher. Because
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: in that 30-minute window, he had been drinking at his orientation.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: while being supervised, while we were standing right there. Oh
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: my gosh, why even though?
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: Well, also, it takes longer to get into your system,
• 4:54
  Speaker 5: so he could have, maybe he did drink in the
• 4:56
  Speaker 5: parking lot, and then it was just.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's saying he was drinking at his orientation.
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, geez.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: I guess he was, he had it in a cup
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: and was just trying to make it.
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: Like a tumbler?
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, hey, you know.
• 5:07
  Speaker 4: That's what the closeted alcoholics do. Just some coffee. Yeah, right.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: We had him gone before lunch. Yeah. The job posting
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: never said, Must be sober. But I really thought that
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: was implied.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: You would think.
• 5:22
  Speaker 5: Gosh, you would think people would have the common sense
• 5:26
  Speaker 5: to not also just show up to work drunk in general.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: I wonder how many people in the HR space have
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: had somebody show up drunk to an interview. I bet
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: it is a crazy amount.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've told a lot of stories like that.
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: Drunk or impaired. We'll just say drunk or impaired. I
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: can guarantee there's been a time when they sat down
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: and you're like, ooh, the whiff of that weed.
• 5:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: Are you high right now?
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: Emma, were you high on your first?
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a weird question to ask.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: No?
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: No, I was just checking.
• 6:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: Seemed like the thing to do. Before we dive back
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: into the chaos on the bad hire, this episode is
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: brought to you by B-Checks. Hiring shouldn't feel like rolling
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: the dice. Background checks should come with great tech, seamless integration,
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: and customer service that delivers. That's B-Checks. Lightning-fast results, unmatched accuracy,
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: built-in fraud prevention. We help you hire the right people.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: B-Checks plugs into over 100 HRIS and ATS systems. So
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: your background checks run smooth, fast, and backed by top-level service.
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: Protect your team. Protect your reputation. Protect your sanity. Go
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: to bchex.io. That's B-C-H-E-X dot I-O.
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: Well, before we move on to my telling stories, we
• 6:51
  Speaker 5: should watch our video that we have from sent in
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: by Tom.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, Tom. Yeah. All right. What you got? Marcus, let
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: it roll.
• 7:02
  Speaker 6: Let's say we have a negative Nelly's and we are saying,
• 7:05
  Speaker 6: let's try to fix them. Let's turn them around because
• 7:07
  Speaker 6: obviously we'd like to see it. We hired them. There's
• 7:09
  Speaker 6: a little bit of confirmation bias. We want to believe
• 7:11
  Speaker 6: that this person's right because we hired them. So I
• 7:14
  Speaker 6: want to introduce you to a guy named Han. Han
• 7:16
  Speaker 6: is in your sales department. Han always hits his metrics.
• 7:20
  Speaker 6: He adds more clients, high profit margin, top salesperson. So far,
• 7:26
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of like, sign me up for more Hans.
• 7:28
  Speaker 5: I'm in.
• 7:29
  Speaker 6: I'm liking the idea of Han. But then you also
• 7:31
  Speaker 6: find out that Han spreads gossip. Han steals clients from
• 7:35
  Speaker 6: your other salespeople. Han has a negative attitude. Han won't
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: work with anyone else. So we've isolated him to a
• 7:41
  Speaker 6: virtual office and he doesn't come to any meetings. What
• 7:45
  Speaker 6: are we going to do with that Han? Because that's
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: one type of a negative Nelly. The super high performer,
• 7:51
  Speaker 6: but when it comes to contribution, they're very negative. Their
• 7:55
  Speaker 6: competency is really high, but their contribution is super low.
• 7:58
  Speaker 6: But then you have the reverse. You have the person
• 8:01
  Speaker 6: who loves the company, can recite every core value, will
• 8:05
  Speaker 6: high-five you on the way in. At every company off-site retreat,
• 8:10
  Speaker 6: they're the first one there. But They're always late on
• 8:12
  Speaker 6: their work. They submit work that needs to be redone
• 8:15
  Speaker 6: by someone else. There's spelling errors in the newsletter. So
• 8:18
  Speaker 6: their contribution is really high, but their competency is really low.
• 8:22
  Speaker 6: So we meet the second type of Nagamdali.
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: And then the third.
• 8:25
  Speaker 6: Type is contributions low, competencies low, the duds and deadbeats. Yeah,
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: just like goodbye.
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: That's super spot on.
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: That was so spot on.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: So spot on. I love the way he told that.
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: He's really good.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: He's a great storyteller.
• 8:42
  Speaker 5: I was going to have him come actually live on
• 8:44
  Speaker 5: the show.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: He's great. That was really good. He had a lot
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: of energy.
• 8:48
  Speaker 5: I loved it.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: He's right, though.
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he is. There's definitely those two types of people.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I always say that that first time he talked
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: about the high performer, you know, but culturally crushing people. Yeah.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: I always say that's like the real test of your
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: commitment to culture. And that even though he's high, performing...
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: Not actually high, but.
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: Even though he's high performing.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: You know, he's actually depressing performance, you know, in his proximity. And,
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: you know, you heard him say, we tried to move
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: him to a virtual office.
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: To get him away from people.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: It's like, you're in timeout, but please keep selling.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Like, please. But that's the kind of, yeah, it's the
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: kind of bad hire that really test, you know, is
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: a real gut check when you're like, hey, I got
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: to let you go. I know you're my top performer.
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: But you're really bad for everybody else. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. That is a real test. That
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: was good. I loved that.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Tom.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Tom.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: All right. So my story today is about.
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: a candidate that came in for a mid-level role. They
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: sit down, shake hands, seem totally fine. Then his mother
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: walks in. A newer hiring manager caught off guard, lets
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: her stay. Mom takes a seat in the corner. The
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: interview goes on. She's quiet the whole time, professional even.
• 10:16
  Speaker 5: The interview wraps up. Everyone's actually pretty impressed. Then the
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: mom speaks. She looks at the hiring team and says,
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: I need you to really hear this. She says, please
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: hire my son so he can help me pay for
• 10:26
  Speaker 5: my new teeth. Not he's worked really hard. Not I'm
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: just here for moral support. It's straight to the dental work.
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: And the hiring manager said it was the clearest sign
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: she'd ever received that a candidate might not be ready
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: to manage his own professional life. So he didn't get
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: the job and the teeth situation remains unresolved.
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: I couldn't keep a.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Straight face the whole time you were telling me because
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: I just, I remember putting the story out there.
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: I was like, you better give me some new teeth.
• 10:59
  Speaker 5: So I'm going to make sure you go to your
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: interview and I'm going to make sure you do a good.
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: Job because I need new teeth.
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: My dad would find this one really funny. He's a dentist.
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that would give him a good laugh.
• 11:09
  Speaker 6: But we have.
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: Another story to react to by Tom. This is his
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: second story.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, cool.
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: And so let's go ahead and cue.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: That up as well.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Tom is a rock star.
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, he's giving us a whole show today.
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Tom.
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: There was a general vibe of negativity in the organization.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: And so they brought me in and they said, hey,
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: can you just sit in for the day on several
• 11:33
  Speaker 6: meetings and just take notes and then we'll reconnect afterwards.
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: So I did. And I sat there and I took
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: all the notes. I listed, I took some quotes down
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: and I saw really quickly what the issue was, like
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: almost within the first two meetings. So at the end
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: of the day, I'm sitting with the executive team. And
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: they're like, so what'd you see, Tom? Like, what would
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: you hear? And I started reading some of the quotes.
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: Am I the only one who thinks around here? This
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: is ridiculous. Do we hire the wrong people? Why can
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: we not get this done on time? And everyone in
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: the room starts looking at one person. Because those quotes
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: were all from the exact same person. Now, here's the thing.
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: In the world of dance floor theory, we give them
• 12:08
  Speaker 6: levels of engagement. So now that we're on the dance floor,
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: we give them levels from neutral one, two, three, four,
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: and five. Executives many times think they're automatically a five.
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: They're a level five leader because I have the seed
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: suite title. But the reality is some of your worst
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: negative Nellies are going to be your executives. And why
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: that matters is because if an intern walks into a
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: room or a meeting and is a negative Nelly, it
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: will have a little bit of an impact. But if
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: you as the CEO walk in and you're saying these quotes,
• 12:38
  Speaker 6: you better believe it's going to influence everyone else in
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: that room. And so that's why I say C-suite people.
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: You may be complaining about your culture, but I say
• 12:47
  Speaker 6: you need to check in with yourself first because you
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: may be the negative Nelly on your team.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, Ken, do we really want to react to that?
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: I'm just kidding.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: What are you suggesting?
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: I'm joking because you're an executive.
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, I do like.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: No, I'm just joking. I do agree, though.
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: I feel like you do see some people who like
• 13:07
  Speaker 5: in these companies that are the executives and they're like negative.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: And then they're like, why is our culture so crappy?
• 13:12
  Speaker 5: And then it's like. you know, it starts from the top.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: So not here at Beach X, obviously, but.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I worked for a guy for a
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: long time, worked for a couple of guys for a
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: long time that had, the only difference is they never asked,
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: why is our culture so negative?
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: They didn't even know. They didn't care. Yeah. Culture was
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: not even something that.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: Came through their mind.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know, and sometimes I think it's, You know,
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: people just don't have the skills, you know, the idea
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: that there's some type of dictator gets in their head,
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: you know, at the executive level. And then, you know,
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: they don't even care. Culture is not even something they
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: think about. You know, it's just get the job done,
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: obey the rules, you know, kind of thing. That's the culture. So, yeah.
• 14:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: But I loved what he said in there, and that was...
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: You know, in turn, that's negative has little influence on others.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: You know, and the higher the person is in the organization.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: The higher the impact. Yeah. So spot on.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Tom is awesome. Yes.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: We love Tom.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Tom. I'm going to hire Tom.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for real. Tom, are you looking? I'm just kidding.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: He's probably like CEO of something. I need to go
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: look at his profile after this. But thank you, Tom.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: It was really good. Yeah. Now what's up?
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Um, my turn.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, I just have one story. But here we go.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: So I ran a small company and I needed a bookkeeper.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: I found someone who seemed solid, good with numbers, easy
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to work with. I trusted him pretty quickly, honestly. Every
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: week payroll ran, everyone got their check, and things just
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: kept moving along like normal for a year. It wasn't
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: until someone flagged a small discrepancy during an audit that
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: anything came up. Turns out my bookkeeper had been cutting
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: himself two checks every single week, one legitimate paycheck and
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: one that was very much not legitimate. For 12 months,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: nobody caught it because he was the bookkeeper. Yeah, I
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: guess he's the one who would catch that. He reconciled
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the accounts. He knew exactly where to hide it. And
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I just had no reason to look. I brought in
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: a forensic accountant who confirmed it. He had been paying
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: himself double for an entire year.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Yikes.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: When we confronted him about it, he seemed surprised, not
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: that he'd been caught, but that it had taken this
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: long for them to catch him doing it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: He's like, you idiots.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Like, he finally caught on. A background check with employment.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Just wondered how long you were letting me get away
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: with this.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: The villain is dying to get caught.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And then it says a background check with employment verification
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: might have revealed that his previous employer had let him
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: go under very similar circumstances.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: And spoiler alert, they did.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Run those employment verifications, guys. Let this be your lesson.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Yeah. Not hilarious. Hilarious.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I don't wish anybody to get stolen from.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: That happens so often. And I have heard. So many stories.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: About people hiring bookkeepers and really not doing a super
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: thorough job. You know, like maybe they do some background checks.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: But a lot of these things where people get caught,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: you know, they don't get turned over to the police.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: There's not a lot of charges. They end up getting
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: booted and fired.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I still feel like you should have somebody who regularly
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: audits your bookkeeper just to like.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Be safe.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. I don't know.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because... It's.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Like giving somebody that amount of trust is a little crazy,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: in my opinion, but that's just me.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Because the funny part about that story was that the
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: guy was surprised. He wasn't surprised that he got caught.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: He was surprised that it took that long to catch him.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: He's like, hmm, let's see how long I can get
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: away with this for.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Another bad hire.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: That's all. The bad hires will continue.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Is that it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, that's it for us today, then. Yeah.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to The Bad Hire. And listen, please subscribe, rate, review, like, share,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: whatever you do to whatever you do on whatever app
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you're on to support us and share our clips or
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: our show with anybody. I think we release every Wednesday now.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: We do.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And so that's kind of cool. So it's kind of
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: we're getting into a rhythm of knowing exactly when we're
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: going to release shows. So but. you know, like and
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: review and share. We'd love that. And then also remember, submit,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: submit your bad hire stories. Just, it's so easy. You
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: can do it. You can do it anonymously and you
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: can write, you know, a terrible bad hire story, just
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: like bone crushing bad hire where you can, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you can write a story of redemption. Somebody, you know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: who maybe did something wrong, but ended up getting it
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: turned around or listen, you can even write a story
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: about someone being awesome. Yeah. All right. We'll just do
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: it a, We'll just do an anti-bad hire story.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Positive story day.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: And what you learned from it. So what we really
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: love to tell is hiring stories. Yeah. And, you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: we laugh about them only because some of them are
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: crazy ridiculous and it's true. And it's what HR pros
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: face like on a regular basis. Like we hear these
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: stories and then, you know, people have come up to
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: me after the show, after hearing the show one time
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: or two and saying, oh my gosh, that was so true.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I have had that exact thing happen to me. And
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, the hiring world is a crazy world
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and recruiters get to experience a lot of crazy stuff.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: But submit your story. Go to thebadhire.com. You could get
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: an email from us to do a segment like Tom did.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Tom did a great job. I bet you would too.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So get it done. So if you want to be
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a guest, you can also email us at producers at
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the bad heart.com. All right. We, uh, thanks for listening and, uh,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we'll see you next time. Bye guys.