It's inevitable to have a bad day at work every once in a while, but how you choose to handle that stress can greatly affect the future of your career.
We rounded up the most horrifying tales of bad behavior in the workplace and found the most egregious, appalling employee acts that were reported in the past 12 months.
From retail to government to corporate executives, the employees on this list lied, cheated, urinated on doors, contaminated other people's food, hired prostitutes while on the job, and much worse.
The Secret Service agents who hired a bunch of Colombian prostitutes.
The night before President Obama's visit to Colombia last April, 10 U.S. Secret Service agents and at least eight members of the U.S. military allegedly hosted a sex party with 20 Colombian prostitutes.
After the scandal broke, several government officials, including two senior supervisors, resigned.
The Burger King worker who stepped into a tub of lettuce.
A Burger King employee posted a photo on 4Chan of feet stepping on a tub of lettuce with the caption "this is the lettuce you eat at Burger King."
4Chan users who saw the photo used the photo's data to track down the culprit to the Mayfield Heights, Ohio, franchise. Cleveland Scene magazine spoke to a shift manager at the location about the incident, who reportedly said, "Whoever this is is getting fired. And whoever the manager was at the time will be fired, too."
Three employees were fired over the incident, though no names were given.
The TSA agent who stole an iPad—and then blamed it on his wife.
After hearing reports of TSA agents stealing travelers' belongings at the airport, ABC News launched an investigation to see how extensive the problem is; they planted ten iPads at ten different airports to find out what would happen.
After two weeks, nine of the ten iPads were returned. The tenth was tracked back to the Orlando-area home of TSA agent Andy Ramirez, who first blamed his wife when he was confronted by ABC reporters and a camera crew before returning the iPad.
"I'm so embarrassed," he told ABC reporters. "My wife says she got the iPad and brought it home."
The TSA removed Ramirez from his position, and released a statement saying that they have "a zero-tolerance policy for theft and terminates any employee who is determined to have stolen from a passenger."
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