Many, many years ago I was working as a part-time mechanic for a guy selling "restored cars". He called me in for an emergency brake repair on a TR-4. Instead of having me hone and rebuild the cylinder properly (I had the tools and the kit to do so), he wanted me to cut the pipe to the rear brakes and just crimp it over onto itself, enough to stop the leak. He was in a hurry and wanted it fixed before the customer saw anything. -u/limeycars

At Dollar Tree, most of my cashiers were teenagers that never showed up for work, so this older woman kept getting called in to work the register. She was pretty much getting 40+ hours every week and open season for benefits was getting ready to start. My district manager called me and told me I had to convince her to not get any benefits or else. I told him that 'else' better be him doing that sh*t himself because I'm not about to do his dirty work. -u/Sol-Blackguy

I had a manager that tried to get me to falsify reports to the feds (financial stuff). I flat out refused. Soon after I had to leave the company for I would have been fired for made up bullshit on his part. To this day I will never regret standing my ground. -u/_Volly

Asked me via text if I would give him, a 60 year old man, a massage, and that he only wears a towel. -u/Archercat88

I had to help my boss work at another store when I was working at Aeropostale. After we left the store, we stopped at some guy's house. She asked me to wait in the car and text her if anyone pulled up. I found out later she was having an affair with this married guy. This happened a bunch of times. I just thought it was a friend or something. She was going in there and having sex with this guy while I was the lookout! -u/Sea-Horror-814

I worked for the largest property management in San Francisco and frequently the Manager would ask us to shred checks that came to us so they could file for eviction on tenants. I quit immediately. -u/47-Rambaldi

Loaded unknown chemicals into the nose of tractor-trailers for out-of-state transport. I'm sure it was all illegally dumped. Just out of HS I had no idea the scope of what was happening. Nothing was labeled, containers, trailers, and manifests all claimed empty containers. -u/[deleted]

A supervisor overextended on a renovation to his home, so he tried to get a special needs employee to take out a loan for him..really sleazy. -u/Dodsworthy

My dad worked at a small mid-western bank as an executive. One day a fellow executive comes in with several loan applications and says he needs them all approved. My dad looks over them quickly and immediately realizes none of the applicants qualified. If they approved them the loans would go into default within three months and these people would lose their farms. My dad said it wasn’t possible. The other exec says “well if you just fudge the numbers it is.” My father tells him that’s impossible, and that they never had this conversation. The other exec nods and takes the papers back. Six months later the FBI raids the bank. My father was the only exec who didn’t go to prison for fraud. -u/BlackStarCorona

I had a boss ask to me take a bunch of stock from the warehouse to his personal storage unit, and not to ask any questions. -u/TJDigital

Look the other way while he embezzled millions of dollars. I did not. -u/Fatherof10

Back in a butcher shop portion of a grocery store I worked at. The supervisor asked me to change the date on some burger that wasn’t selling. The day she asked me to do this was the sell-by date. I even asked her if that was safe/legal. She just tapped her name tag that said supervisor on it and said that was the only thing I needed to worry about. She was gone by the end of the week. -u/Nerdfatha

First job after I graduated college, boss called me into his office and had me sit next to his daughter while she took an online exam, told me to make sure she passed it. She definitely wouldn’t have passed if I wasn’t in the room. -u/AllGarbage

Branch Manager (banking) asked me to pose in a picture, showing a lot of cleavage, to use on his construction loan website for his builders. He wanted them to ‘see’ who they would be working with on a daily basis so he could get more business. -u/Hchel25

Keep people at work when there was a chemical leak from the car painting shop next door, and people were getting sick. The boss wasn't on-site, I tried calling him and got no answer, and I was the most senior worker on-site, so I sent everyone home. When I was almost home (1h+ commute) he called me back. He had gotten my voicemail where I explained the situation and he was not happy. Apparently, we should have waited it out or I should have arranged for everyone to work from home. -u/ipakookapi

Due to the nature of the work, my apartment was on company premises and the closet was an old storage area that I never opened as it was still insulated with asbestos. Boss said it should be fine as long as I didn't sweep too fast. I left before I cleaned my closet. -u/atlantis_airlines

"Run it 'til it breaks." Me standing there running a $11.5 million machine that uses liquid gold and computer parts for cars, telling bosses and technicians that it's making horrible rattling sounds. It broke and cost them $8700 and three days down time. Instead of $90 and one-day’s maintenance. -u/FarWoods

When I was 16 I worked at Spencer's in the mall. The store manager was a middle-aged female who found out she was being demoted. She made the decision to quit instead. Her last day I happened to be closing the store with her. After everything was closed and locked up we were punching out in the back room. I went to open the door that led back into the store and she physically put her hand over it and closed it. Then she said "you know I make schedules right" I said "yea I understand that." She said "Do you think it's a coincidence that you and I are closing my last day? This is your opportunity to do anything that you want with me." I was so uncomfortable, and I didn't know what to do, so I gave her a hug and she said really that's it. All the while her husband and 2 kids were waiting in the car outside the mall to pick her up to pick her up. -u/cheesekernd

While working at a fast-food restaurant we were preparing for a corporate inspection and my job was to clean the walk-in cooler and freezer. My boss told me to wet mop both. When I mentioned to him that wet mopping the freezer would cause it to turn into an ice rink he told me to put a cap full of antifreeze in the water. I told him this is the freezer where we keep beef, chicken, and french fries and I was not going to do it. He threatened to write me up but I still refused. He did not last long as the manager. -u/some_guy_76