12 Minutes of the Most Unhinged Employee Stories

We've all done it. At some point, every leader has accidentally let crazy into their company. I've been in business for over 30 years and trust me, I've seen plenty of people doing stupid human tricks. The kind that makes you question your hiring process, your judgment, and occasionally your own sanity. Because when crazy slips through the door, it doesn't just cost you money, it costs you time.

trust and momentum. And most of us have to learn that lesson the hard way. But sometimes all you can do is let the person go, laugh it off, and hire better next time. So today Entree Leadership's head coach John Falkins is reacting to stories our team collected of bad, dumb, and just plain crazy employees and what smart leaders should do when chaos shows up. Ha, let's get to it.

All right, let's see what we got. They'd go down to Lowe's and Home Depot stuff and I'd get to notice and man we're spending five, six, eight thousand dollars a week at Lowe's and Home Depot. That don't make sense. They would go in there and they would buy stuff that it's gonna be on a receipt of stuff we would use. I mean phone board, uh, they'd even get nails, uh, headlights, batteries, you name it.

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