“They Ran Off to Europe Together”: HR Reps Share the Different Office Scandals They Have Seen on the Job

A child’s daycare is the last place any of us want work drama. Alas, these safe havens of innocence are not immune to workplace scandals. This person used to work at a nursery run by an older man in his early 50s. He was a nice guy and was married with four kids. Pretty normal, right?

Wrong. The nursery hired a seventeen-year-old girl who worked alongside our storyteller. Two years later, when this girl was nineteen, the director dropped bombshell news. He left his wife and broke up his family to be with this young woman. We’d like to remind everyone that she was barely a legal adult. Everything might have been consensual, but it left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.