45 Times People Were Supposed To Be Unaware Of The Secrets They Accidentally Learned

An email chain between HR, the GM, asst. GM and dept head discussing how they were going to fire someone in an egregiously illegal fashion. The emails acknowledged they had no grounds but it would save the company $xxx going forward.
I sent it to myself then deleted the sent email, took a picture of the screen as well.
I really didn’t care for the person they were after so I let it play out. Then because I’m not a complete [jerk] I sent her the evidence anonymously. She sued and won.

My now Ex-husband was planning on secretly buying a house with his son using money we had both saved for us to buy a house together The next day I went to the bank & took out my half.

Buckle up, kids, because this is a story. My mom started bringing this guy around, I got a really bad feeling about him. She wouldn't tell me anything about him. So, with nothing more than a first name and what he looked like, I hopped on the state offender registry and found him. I called her afterwards and a) she knew b) she was mad I even looked into it and c) she didn't tell me because of "how I'd react". I said, "bring him around me again and he's going to be missing a micro appendage"

bethannesbest:
How old were you at the time? Just curious

doyleness.7138 (OP):
Barely 17. It was highly illegal for him to be around me and she knew it. I also carried a hunting knife on my hip at all times at that particular point in time, and am afraid of nobody. She brought him to my high school graduation across state lines with a ton of kids around when I explicitly told her not to, as well. They're married now and we don't talk.

When I was 14 I found out my grandma was really not my grandmother. My grandpa had been married and had 4 kids she passed away and he married my grandma. When I turned 17 my mom did finally “tell” me. She didn’t want me to treat my grandma any different. Never did. Loved that woman!!!!

While I was volunteering 30 hours a week, our pastor's wife was on annual salary for $100K

When I was a child I went exploring while visiting family and ended up in the basement. A door was ajar, light streaming into the darkness and the smell! It stank like a skunk. I opened the door and saw rows and rows of plants under lights. Tin foil was on the walls. Suddenly a strong hand yanked me out of the room and I got yelled at. It was very confusing at the time but later I definitely figured out what kind of plants they were lol.

When I was 23/24, with a master’s degree, I was being paid slightly less than a male intern who still hadn’t graduated college. Talk about your salaries, Thriends.

Moved around a lot as a kid because of my parents jobs. Didn’t have many friends or a “real home” because of this. One night I’m chillin with the fam and we’re reminiscing about childhood. Dad lets it slip that the reason we moved so much was because he discovered that his employer was embezzling money. Naturally, he did the right thing and escalated the situation. That boss put a bounty on my dad’s head and when my dad found out we moved that night. Mind blowing stuff dude.

I caught my mom cheating on my dad. With her sisters husband. I was seven.

My grandmother’s ‘brother’ was actually her son. He was passed off as her brother her whole life. I have no idea who the father was, she took that to the grave. But she was 12 years old when she gave birth in rural Alabama.

I was always told my grandfather was discharged from the Army. Turns out he was stealing whatever he could get his hands on from the military while stationed in Japan - to the point where the military had his landlines tapped. He was very much dishonorably discharged and no one knows except my Nana. And now me.

I accidentally found my now husband’s ex wife’s diary. He and I had just started dating. She sent over boxes that had been in storage and left a notebook/diary in there. I knew he left her for cheating on him and he said she had mental health issues. She was obsessed w The Secret. Then I found the notebook and 😳. She had written pages and pages about loving money, the smell of money, the feel of money, MONEY MONEY MONEY. Then she had written drafts of apology letters to him where she half apologized for cheating, but also blamed him, but also denied it. It was like reading the rantings of a raving lunatic. Something def wrong w her. I admitted to him what I found when he came home and cried, saying I understood if he broke up w me bc I shouldn’t have read it; I was looking for a dvd and thought it was a kid’s book of drawings. But once I started reading I couldn’t stop! He laughed and said it was okay; he was kinda glad bc now I understood what he had dealt with.
bebothebold:
Omg girl this is WILD!

_plasticangels (OP):
IT WAS. He’d told me she had issues w/o being a jerk about it, so I already believed him, but I also didn’t know the full extent. He didn’t want to be THAT guy who’s mean about his ex so how could he fully explain it?! Finding that made it all make sense; he said their marriage counselor had told him to run bc she was narcissistic and needed a psych eval bc she was splitting.

My boss left everyone’s salary record on the printer. I had just been promoted and my replacement was making $20k more than me. Asked for raise, got $3k or told I could quit 🤬🤬🤬🤬

That my sister, the middle child, has a different dad than me and my brother… my mom doesn’t know I know 🙃

Both sets of grandparents altered their declared wedding date so it was more than 9 months prior to their first borns birthdate.

That my mum wasn't sick. She would receive calls from "doctors" in the day. Turned out, those were her lovers

That our father had passed away six months before my bro-in-law accidentally found out when sorting out his own father’s estate last year. The step mother still hadn’t informed us that he has passed away.

That my white dad who had married a black Jamaican woman (my mom) was quoted in the Toronto Star as not hiring "those people" back in the 70s when interviewed about his company. My auntie let it slip a few years ago and ugh. I've yet to unpack that in therapy.

A company I worked for accidentally shared access to HR dashboards to everyone in the company. The company with 70% female employees, and yet men had the highest salaries. There’s departments with all female staff except for male managers and supervisors. 🙃 so yeah I got to literally see the wage gap in real life spelled out in pretty dashboards and graphs. It was so bad that when I reported the access, my male manager said that if I wanted to talk about it with him or HR, he supported me. Pretty sure the only reason it didn’t cause company wide outrage is because while they had shared access to everyone in the company, it wasn’t like a pushed alert or anything. I found it when I was trying to find my department KPI dashboard after they migrated to a different server. Our dashboard names were similar and I clicked on the wrong one. Apparently the access permissions were not carried over during the migration

My mother skipped my highschool graduation to play Bingo with her friends