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The Bad Hire is a bold, human-first podcast about hires gone wrong. Hosted by Ken Monroe, CEO of Bchex, each episode unpacks the funniest, strangest, and most shocking bad hire stories from offices, job sites, and teams everywhere.
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She Took the Job Just to Meet Men (opens the original)
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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 perfect place to meet someone. There was just one problem: her department was almost entirely women. So she left. In Episode 49 of The Bad Hire, Ken, Emma, and Kyrie break down another round of unbelievable workplace stories involving bizarre motivations, expensive mistakes, open mic disasters, empl
She Faked Her Child’s Death for Money (opens the original)
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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 Episode 48 of The Bad Hire, Ken, Nathan, and Kylie break down another round of unbelievable workplace stories — from a new employee lighting a cigarette next to 10,000 liters of acetone to a worker who leads police on a high-speed chase and decides the best place to hide is his own office. But one story
She Faked a Carjacking to Get Out of Work (opens the original)
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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 this?” In Episode 47 of The Bad Hire, Ken, Morgan, and Nathan break down another round of unbelievable workplace stories — from an employee who intentionally shot himself with a nail gun because of a wasp to a senior developer caught downloading five years of company source code onto his personal USB
He Blew $4,000 on the Company Card His First Day (opens the original)
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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, Ken, Emma, and Kylie break down another round of unbelievable workplace stories — from an employee with an impossible streak of family emergencies to a seven-figure executive who simply never showed up for his first day. This episode proves bad hires can happen at every level. You’ll hear: – A new man
Her Text to Her Boss Got Her Fired (opens the original)
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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 another round of unbelievable workplace stories — including a $1.7 million fraud scheme, an employee with increasingly ridiculous excuses for being hours late, and a new hire who takes her relationship with her manager way too far. The stories range from funny and bizarre to genuinely difficult situatio
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