the mystery coworker
(This is a true story...)
About a month or so ago, a young guy came into our office. He was wearing an old uniform (as in it's retired - we don't use them any more) and claimed he was a transfer from another office.
It so happened that the office he claimed he was transferring from is also under the supervision of my boss. She of course had no record of him being hired, much less transferring over to us.
After going back and forth with him for about 15 minutes, he finally left. He came in later that evening and told another coworker that we owed him a check. He also said that his (entire) job was running the fax machines.
The next day, his aunt called and asked where his check was. My boss repeated the conversation about how he didn't have a job there, and never had.
Then, a couple days later our boss gets this guy's child support letter. This was a mistake on his part, because it had his social security number on it. She had our corporate office confirm that he has never been employed by any division of our company. (We're a large international company). After confirming that he really never was employed with us anywhere, the boss called our legal dept. They had her file a police report, because he had involved the child support office and was now getting into fraud.
At some point during all of this, the guy's aunt called again. Our boss tried to get the guy to come in (unknowingly) at the same time the police were there, but he couldn't for whatever reason.
So a few weeks have gone by without hearing from this guy.
Today, we get a phone call from a worker's compensation office. Now this guy is trying to collect worker's comp from us. I was in my boss' office when she was on the phone. She started telling the worker's comp lady this story, and the lady just kept saying "oh..."... and finally was like "well, this is clearly fraud". My boss got her number, and gave her some other numbers at our company for HR and whatnot. She also found out that his worker's comp claim stated he was injured because he was breaking up a fight and got hit with a chair.
We're not sure if this guy is just an idiot who is trying to scam us and isn't very good at it, or if he's mentally unstable. Or maybe both.
About a month or so ago, a young guy came into our office. He was wearing an old uniform (as in it's retired - we don't use them any more) and claimed he was a transfer from another office.
It so happened that the office he claimed he was transferring from is also under the supervision of my boss. She of course had no record of him being hired, much less transferring over to us.
After going back and forth with him for about 15 minutes, he finally left. He came in later that evening and told another coworker that we owed him a check. He also said that his (entire) job was running the fax machines.
The next day, his aunt called and asked where his check was. My boss repeated the conversation about how he didn't have a job there, and never had.
Then, a couple days later our boss gets this guy's child support letter. This was a mistake on his part, because it had his social security number on it. She had our corporate office confirm that he has never been employed by any division of our company. (We're a large international company). After confirming that he really never was employed with us anywhere, the boss called our legal dept. They had her file a police report, because he had involved the child support office and was now getting into fraud.
At some point during all of this, the guy's aunt called again. Our boss tried to get the guy to come in (unknowingly) at the same time the police were there, but he couldn't for whatever reason.
So a few weeks have gone by without hearing from this guy.
Today, we get a phone call from a worker's compensation office. Now this guy is trying to collect worker's comp from us. I was in my boss' office when she was on the phone. She started telling the worker's comp lady this story, and the lady just kept saying "oh..."... and finally was like "well, this is clearly fraud". My boss got her number, and gave her some other numbers at our company for HR and whatnot. She also found out that his worker's comp claim stated he was injured because he was breaking up a fight and got hit with a chair.
We're not sure if this guy is just an idiot who is trying to scam us and isn't very good at it, or if he's mentally unstable. Or maybe both.
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