Are these the worst employees ever?

Could these be the worst employees ever? Photo / Getty

From the lazy slob, to the person who always eats fish for lunch, there's always one colleague who tends to get on everybody's nerves.

But spare a thought for these frustrated bosses, who have undoubtedly come across some of the very worst employees the working world has to offer.

According to Daily Mail, the employers revealed how they have had to contend with employees who were rude, reckless - and more than happy to break the rules. Some even told of how they had caught colleagues breaking the law while in the office.

They were responding to an AskReddit thread from a user who asked: "Bosses and managers, what was your worst employee like?"

One user shared a horrifying story about an angry employee. "[He] got mad and masturbated in front of the entire store," he wrote.

Another shared a disturbing tale about a drug addict he used to work with. He wrote: "Caught him doing heroine (sic) in the bathroom... He went to jail shortly after being fired."

A third posted: "Took peoples (sic) bank information to pay for his family bill. We obviously saw his name."

Theft was a problem for another employee. "There was the guy who 'borrowed' the company car (with logo on it) in the middle of the night," the boss wrote.

"Yes, he was drunk. Yes, he crashed it. Yes, he was arrested. Oh - his passengers were three other workers. They were all a******s."

Even the seemingly mundane examples were still difficult to handle.

As one user explained: "The worst employee I've known is a girl who told me she hated waking up to come to work so in order to sleep longer in the morning, she would put her clothes on the night before and sleep in them and roll out of bed and come straight to work.

"She never wore pants, only thick leggings under heavy skirts. She lived with her parents and their 20 cats and would always be covered in cat hair. She didn't brush her hair and always wore a beanie, even inside. She eventually got fired due to it as she was a sales rep for our company."