The company was growing fast. Startup to millions in revenue in about a year. So they hired a CFO who looked the part: glasses, résumé, all of it. One month in, the credit card bill showed $2,800 in…
Four months of searching. Three prior CFO roles. References that held up. On his first day, he came in early, got his badge photo taken, and sat down with the quarterly numbers. Around 10 in the…
The job posting said Atlanta. The offer letter said Atlanta. The onboarding paperwork said Atlanta. The welcome email even included a parking map for the Atlanta office. On her first day, she showed…
She worked a nine-hour first day for $28. Not $28 an hour. $28 for the whole day. She stayed until 6:30, a half hour past quitting time, and went home. At 7:30 that night, one of the partners called…
She interviewed well, got the job, showed up for her first day… and then asked one very important question: Where are all the men? Turns out, she had taken the job expecting a large company to be the…
What do you do when an employee tells everyone she adopted a child, lost everything in a house fire, and then tragically lost the child — only for HR to discover that none of it ever happened? In…
What do you do when an employee calls in claiming she was just carjacked and needs the entire week off… only for her boss to call her actual phone 30 seconds later and hear, “Hey, I’m driving. Who’s…
What do you do when a brand-new employee gets a company credit card on his first day… disappears at lunch… and comes back with $4,000 worth of suits, ties, and shoes? In Episode 46 of The Bad Hire,…
What do you do when an employee going through an incredibly difficult time starts crossing the line with her much-younger manager? In Episode 45 of The Bad Hire, Ken, Morgan, and Corey break down…
What happens when a software developer spends years secretly building a “kill switch” designed to cripple the company the moment he’s fired? In Episode 44 of The Bad Hire, Ken, Nathan, and Morgan…
