Employers Share Top 20 Strangest Complaints They Received from Employees in New CareerBuilder Survey!

In the midst of a stressful employment environment, hiring managers took some time to bring a little levity to the workplace. More than 2,600 hiring managers participated in a nationwide survey from CareerBuilder, citing examples of the oddest complaints they received from employees. Highlights include:

• Employee is too sun-tanned.


• Employee has big hair.


• Employee eats all the good cookies.


• Employee is so polite, it’s infuriating.


• Employee suspected co-worker is a pimp.


• Employee is trying to poison me.


• Employee’s body is magnetic and keeps de-activating my magnetic access card.


• Employee is personally responsible for a federally-mandated tax increase.


• Employee was annoyed the company didn’t provide a place for naps during break
  time.


• Employee only wears slippers or socks at work.


• Employee’s aura is wrong.


• Employee smells like road ramps.


• Employee breathes too loudly.


• Employee wants to check a co-worker for ticks.


• 8:00 a.m. is too early to get up for work.


• Employee wore pajamas to work.


• Employee has bells on her shoes and it’s not the holidays.


• Co-worker reminded the employee too much of Bambi.


• Employee spends too much time caring for stray cats around the building.


• A male employee keeps using the ladies’ room because the men’s room is not as tidy.

Survey Methodology
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive© on behalf of CareerBuilder.com between May 22 and June 10, 2009 among 2,667 hiring managers and human resource professionals (employed full-time; not self-employed; with at least significant involvement in hiring decisions; non- government) ages 18 and over. With a pure probability sample of 2,667 one could say with a 95 percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/- 1.9 percentage points. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies.

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