What is the worst thing that you’ve seen a coworker do and still avoid being fired?

Obligatory not me but my wife. She had a co-worker that literally punched a customer, wasn’t fired. He later got into a physical altercation with another co-worker, wasn’t fired.

Then he wrapped my wife’s hair around her throat and “play choked” her. Still was not fired. Finally, he got into yet another altercation with a co-worker and pulled a gun on him, all while on the clock. Then he was fired.

Accidentally send the last three years of account details/back statements from one company to their direct competitor

Guy at my wife’s old job was brought in because he was really good at selling the services they provided. Proceeded to send dick pics to the women at work and solicit nudes from them. Women said to stop or they’d take it up with management and it subsided some. Solicited nudes from a new chick who asked my wife about it and my wife went to management with everything and said this guy’s out or I’m quitting. Well, she quit. Guy’s still there but most the original female staff has quit.

I have a coworker that has terrible work ethic. He doesn’t know how to separate his personal life from his work life so if he’s in a bad mood (which happens often), everyone will know including customers. He’s had at least three disciplinary meetings. Once he was caught just fucking around for an hour (not exactly sure what happened but our boss wasn’t happy). Another time he just didn’t show up to work without calling in, and it was a day that everyone knew would be busy. I don’t know why he hasn’t been fired yet, everywhere else I’ve worked he would’ve been gone by now.

After already being disciplined and essentially demoted for doing his job terribly, my coworker drunk texted all of our managers in the middle of the night asking why they didn’t love him. It’s been about two weeks and I haven’t seen him since, but he’s not gone. Not the worst thing he could have done but I cringe thinking about it.