We’ve all had that very worst day combo. From little things, like keys falling into the road gutter hole to a car engine that goes on vacation and doesn’t start, to pouring salt instead of sugar in your coffee, call them first world problems, but they’re real. And blood-boiling. In fact, we previously rolled up this compilation of pics with people having a day they’d be better off without.
This time, we are taking it a step further with a brand new list of employees having worse days than you. The cases are just vile. Think of a guy dropping a $40,000 pallet worth of glass on his first day or think of how it feels when you’re working from home and hit video instead of audio.
While you feel the hair standing up on your arms, I leave the stage to all the workers who need a big hug, mint tea and a warm blanket as soon as they get home. And if you still think that your workday is not going according to plan, well, think again.
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When I Worked At A Dog Daycare (I'd Bring My Dog With Me, Duh) I Once Got Off From Work And Was So Hungry I Left Without Him
My manager sent me this picture about 10 minutes later saying "You forgot something". His expression is perfect.
Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset
When You’re Working From Home And You Hit Video Instead Of Audio
It has happened to all of us. The CEOs, the interns, the freelancers, nobody is immune to a bad day at work. And when it feels like everything is falling out of your hands and your head is about to explode, you look at the clock, and it says there’s still hours left until the day becomes history. So in order to find out what exactly we can do to help our miserable selves struggling with a bad day at work, Bored Panda reached out to Christine Mitterbauer, licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, who was happy to share some useful tips and insights.
“When you’re in the moment and this happens, the best thing is to stop what you’re doing, don’t say another word and excuse yourself to go to the bathroom,” Christine said and added that the last thing you want to do is explode in front of your boss and colleagues. “Doing this solves the problem in the short term, but to avoid this type of situation in the long term, there are a few strategies you could practice.”
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Keeps Pecking The Window And Shouting At Me While I'm Trying To Work
The One Time The Toner Exploded At Work While Switching It Out. You Can See Where I Was At That Exact Moment
“Assuming you’ve excused yourself and have found a private space, whether it’s the bathroom or outside in the fresh air, the first thing to do is to get your breathing under control. Our breathing is intimately linked with our feelings and emotions, so by breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly, you immediately start calming your angry emotions down,” Christine said. In fact, the career coach argues that it’s impossible to be hot-tempered and angry while breathing slowly and deeply. “Do this 10 times,” Christine suggested.
Actually Had To Put This Sign Up In The Bathroom At My Work
My Friend Works As An Extra In Movies And Does Stock Photography.... Just Saw Him Pictured As A Sex Offender On A Bus In Florida
So I Started Working As A Beekeeper Last Week
“Another thing to do is to remind yourself that everyone always has a reason for acting and speaking the way they do, a reason that makes sense to them. It might make no sense to you and irritate or anger you, but by always trying to put your mind into that of the person who has angered you, you start losing some of that anger. No one is being mean or irritating on purpose.”
My Girlfriend Got Nailed At Work
This Pillar Was Straight Last Week. This Is The First Floor Of A Seven-Floor Building
Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work
Obviously you want to minimize the bad days you have at work, Christine says, as if there’s too many bad days, there may be consequences. “This can indeed affect your confidence as you start questioning yourself and your capability to do the job,” she said.
Another great tip to make sure you don’t get yourself to the moment of explosion at work is, before accepting the job, to “try as much as possible to get a feel for the kind of people you’ll be working with, as associating with personalities that clash with ours can result in too many uncomfortable and angry interactions.”
Poor Megan
I Cleaned The Cat’s Litter Box And Brought The Bag With Me To Throw Away In My Outdoor Trash Can On The Way To Work. I Also Brought My Lunch
Guess which one got thrown away and which one came to work with me.
My Friend Got A Surprise Haircut At Work Today. And It Was Free
Having said that, the career coach assured our readers that unless you’re a Buddhist monk, pretty much everyone will have bad days at work from time to time, even if they mostly love their job. “Speaking about Buddhist monks. One long-term strategy to really get your temper under control is to practice mindfulness meditation.”
It’s an excellent method to taking back the control you feel like losing when a bad day at work gets you. “This is a way of noticing your thoughts for what they are, ‘just thoughts,’ instead of having the thoughts control you. The better you become at this, the quicker you’ll pick up your angry thoughts in those crucial moments, and you will be able to push them away before they have a chance to consume you and make you feel like you’re exploding.”
Christine said that you could practice 10-15 min a day and see results after just a few weeks. So it’s definitely worth trying it out!
Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day
Bought 60 Doughnuts For The Office Today To Celebrate My 20th Birthday, Only To Be Told I Need To Self Isolate And Work From Home For The Next Week
They Couldn’t Do It
After Years In Retail, This Is The Worst Case Scenario
Would that not be in the pharmacy aisle, along with condoms and pregnancy testing kits?
Load More Replies...Not so much as you might think if you use something like cat sand or sawdust first to soak it up.
Load More Replies...Easy. Use cat litter and showel it up. What do you think they do in a garage?
And up from the ground came a bubbling crude. Olive oil that is. Greekist gold
Yeah... at least it wasn't mixed with salsa and pasta sauce... see it can always get worse.
Hopefully an oil-rich country doesn’t invade this spot. If they actually do, however, they’ll have to get past the Wet Floor signs.
At first I thought it would be a nice little break but then I realized it's oil...
Oh damn. That truly sucks. Kid as a toddler managed to empty a 2 liter of cooking oil and a family size bin of oatmeal onto the kitchen floor and was happily playing in it when I got home. Guess who was supposed to be watching him? Dad was asleep on couch. Trying to grab him to clean him up was like trying to catch a greased pig. I had to clean the tile with comet to keep from slipping.
Not sure which is worse: $40k of broken glass or be the one who has to clean this. Hopefully, at least one of them kept their job
That woman in the pic is me turning around and looking at my worst nightmare after my 7yr old son ask if he can put the bottle in the cart. Me: WHAT DID YOU DO?! 7yr old: The other bottles tried to followed me
Wow! Never seen that big of an olive oil spill. Kitty litter works best to soak it up. I used to work at a grocery store. Tip
I worked at Little Walmart.a few years ago and someone accidentally knocked over the entire alcohol aisle.
Working at diner..with a friend..closing time. She is in the kitchen changing out oil in fryer. I am out front cleaning when she starts shouting oh sh#*, oh fu#! I run back and there is an oil lake on the floor, everywhere. She didn't wait for it to cool and used a plastic bin to catch it, which melted. Had to move the equipment to clean it up. I could not leave her alone to clean it so i helped. Actually a very fond memory that still makes me laugh.
why do I feel like Billy the puppet is around the corner?
Someone from Tuscany is seeing this pic and having a mental breakdown
Imagine trying to mop that up, with water. Go to your kitchen and *try* to mix it.
Working at a Japanese restaurant as a server . We kept the yum yum sauce in the walk in cooler in a big container. I'm talking as bug as an outdoor trash can . It was popular so we filled up huge pitchers of it for the front end. I was told to go fill them up as my last task of the night . It was mayo based . So it was very oily/greasy. My hands occasionally and randomly have spasms and it's worse when I'm in a cold environment. So walk on cooler and using a ladle to dip it out and fill up the front end container. I was trying to get out of there fast so I was leaving in a hurry carrying 4 of them . 2 in each hand by the handles . Thus is back when I was a teen so My hand spasms weren't happening as often . I dropped all four of them right in the walki in right on the cold floor . It took me forever to clean it up because of the cold floor cooling the mop water too quickly . The soap and water wouldn't cut it so all the mop did was smear it around . It took me over an hour and a half past time the time I was supposed to leave . I was literally ready to walk out the door . I cried the whole time . Bad day and it just made it worse . I also ruined my seat covers because we closed for 2 or so hours from lunch to dinner service so I went to a park on a hot day and took my lunch with me . You guessed it . My friend sat my food in my seat while I went to the trash can to throw away something. I didn't look and sat down right on the Styrofoam container that had a huge cup of the stuff ( its really good ) hot and no A/c. Ruined my seat cover because you can't get the grease spot out and my car smelled like hot mayo for a long time . Lol
*Insert joke about the US coming to invade for the oil supply here*
Oh just drop a pallet of day old bread on top . . . that should take care of it shortly!!!
that happened to me once but with red wine. i thought it was blood for a second
I worked for Walmart a couple years ago and I moved out of the deli and into grocery because I was sick of doing everyone’s job. Sk after a couple weeks in grocery I got a call over the intercom from management that I was needed in the deli and I show up to find the grease from the fryers EVERYWHERE. Apparently the kid who was working was cleaning the fryers and emptied both fryers at the same time not one at a time like your as supposed to so i was asked to help clean up with the co store manager and 2 other managers. Still took us hours to clean it all up
Does the wet floor sign still need to be put up since it's technically not wet?
Oh gee... The cleanup will take the rest of that shift & part of the next!
I like the smell of olive oil so i could stay there for the whole night
Burn the place down and start over or or hear me out bloody slip. And slide
it could have been anything but olive oil - just thinking about the cleanup exhausts my brain
Should've seen our grocery stores aisles after our earthquake in November 2018. My friend was wading through shampoo, liquid soap, you name it!
That is going to keep coming out from palettes for at least a week. Hopefully it's easier to clean than it looks.
Supervisor: imma need u to clean up a spill in aisle 9..Me: the devils a liar here u go handing them the mop and bucket. This seems like a you problem cause u don't pay me e ough
I used to work at Walmart Neighborhood Market and one time someone pushed the top stock a little too far and somehow the entire alcohol aisle came crashing to the ground. Fun day
Mayo is worse. I had to clean up a smashed display of Mayo jars when I worked in a grocery store during highschool.
I picture Vito Corleone somewhere stroking a cat, and plotting his vengeance...
My store sets laundry detergent out like that and assholes take jugs from the bottom then the whole stack collapses and gallons of detergent spill everywhere. Yet they keep putting it out the same way. I guess some people never learn. Or theyre too lazy to do it the right way.
WTF they should have had common sense enough to know that this shelf couldn't hold all that weight.
"Clean up on aisle 1; I'm gonna need a pallet load of focaccia bread, stat!"
Oh jeez. I thought it was bad when this happened with boxes of red wine in work!
Saw it happen in Tesco once. Only it was one of those big metal trolleys, and it was booze.
Wait til it goes rancid because no how well you clean it, some will be left behind.
As someone who used to help out in a wine store, I beg to differ: Pretty bad and horror to clean for sure, but my first thought was: no cardboard boxes on the floor piled as a pyramid ready to melt and collapse on top, many bottles are still intact and more likely than not the bottles where just some average brand rather than high end stuff...
I'd call a professional company in to handle that. Paper towels, cleaner, and a mop are not going to cut it.
It’s glass. It’s oil. It’s an expensive product. All round a disaster.
Did someone not lock in that shelving properly on the one side? That's kinda what it looks like.
There was an earthquake in my town several years ago and all the liquor bottles in the Safeway were knocked off the shelves and broke. They had to prop the doors open for several days afterwards because even after clean up, the fumes made people dizzy. There was an earthquake in my town several years ago that knocked all the liquor bottles off the shelves in the Safeway. They had to keep the doors propped open for several days afterwards because even after clean up, the fumes made people dizzy.
What is sad is you know there is a freaking Karen up front bitching that all she came to the store is in the cooler and what are you going to do for "HER" inconvenience Lmfaoo
Wow, hope no one tries to drive a (Mario)kart down that aisle any time soon...
And this is why you don't keep glass bottle on top without slide supporters
My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today... Didn't Go Very Well
Accidently Dropped My Work Keys Into The Toilet. When I Got Up To Fish Them Out, It Automatically Flushed Itself
I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists
I Work As A Valet. Told Him He Had To Park It Himself
I Do Calligraphy. I Misplaced The Circled In Character, Which Is Part Of A 300 Word Scroll That I Almost Finished After 5 Days Of Work, 200 Characters In
The Ink From My Date Stamp At Work Exploded On My Shirt And The Material Formed The Droplets Into Little Stars
I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence
So I Bring A Pecan Pie To Work. By Noon It Was Missing. Found It A Few Hours Later In My Boss's Office
Buckets Of Paint Fell Off A Pallet Being Lifted By A Forklift
Need To Keep The Light On When I Get Ready For Work
The Windows Where I Work Like To Explode Every Month Or So
It's Always A Pleasure To Realize That Your Coworkers Don't Know How To Close A Box Properly... Right When You're Ready To Go Home
Was Given A Heat Sensitive Mug For A Work Meeting
Really Bad Day
My Friend Works As A Cleaner Here
After The Meeting Coworker Let Me Know That I Looked Naked And Frustrated The Whole Time
My Friend Went To Work With A Pair Of Underwear Hanging Out Of Her Pants All Day
I Work As A Financial Auditor. When Reviewing Cash Deposits, I Found That One Of Our Employees Accepted This $100 Bill
If only there was a way for the cashier to tell that this is fake 😐
I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans... By Hand
Just toss it all away. It would take too much time and the cost of buying new ones would outweigh the hours spent on sorting
FedEx Truck Hanging Off The Indiana Toll Road After Hitting Ice In Frigid Conditions. Driver Not Hurt
A Fly Managed To Slip Into My Coffee At Work. Fortunately, I Spit Him Out All Over My Keyboard
What McDonald's Got Us (At Least My Branch Of McDonald's) For Our Work During The Pandemic
-41°С And No One To Let Me In To Work
Just Slipped On Ice And Tore My Favourite Jeans. Now I Gotta Go A Whole Shift At Work With My Bright Orange Boxers On Show
My Wife Just Got This Huge Banner For Work. Perfect
This is either fake or clearly the other company’s fault. When the image doesn’t load, you ask the client to resend it.
This Was My Dad's Only Christmas Bonus From The Company He's Worked At For Over 20 Years: A $20 Off Coupon For A Frozen Turkey. My Mom Got A Christmas Ornament
These big companies honestly should be destroyed. Quality and employee care are all horrible.
My Boss Is Going To Kill Me
Why're you just standing there taking pictures? Help him climb up
My Zipper Broke At Work, Right Before A Few Important Meetings
So I Found Out That My Shoes Have A Hole In Them... At The Urinal At Work
I Picked Something Up At Work, All Of A Sudden My Leg Started To Hurt, I Reached Into The Pocket At My Leg And Realised That My Spare Blade Made It Out Of The Case Somehow
Just Lost Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Product At Work. Most Likely Getting Fired
Just a general comment to all workers out there. Thank you for putting up with all the s**t you do.
I hate how poorly workers are treated. They're treated like mere cogs in a machine.
All in all we're just another brick in the wall
Load More Replies...The food waste really hurts. And I learned that you always should have replacement pants at work - and a pair of matching shoes.
It’s unfortunate, but they can’t sell stuff that’s determined to be outside of safe temperatures. And the ice cream one seems like that stuff had been sitting without power for at least 10 hours since they said it happened at 7 pm and it’s clearlu past dawn in the photo.
Load More Replies...One very hot day when I was working in downtown Seattle, a truck carrying a dozen or so barrels of pig guts started up Marion Street, a hill right next to my workplace, and the chain at the back of the truck holding the barrels in broke. All those barrels tumbled out, coating the street with several inches of gore. We caught wind of what happened way back in the repair shop when the driver came into the store to use the phone to call his boss, leaving footprints of greasy, smelly slime on the carpet. I still remember watching the poor truckdriver getting started scraping up the mess in the street, his head hanging low. The company cleaned it up, but an aromatic memory was with us all through that heatwave.
I love looking at photos like these. That’s only because I can get anxious at work, thinking that nothing could get better. That is until I remember that photos like these exist, enabling me to think, “At least I’m not these people.”
Just a general comment to all workers out there. Thank you for putting up with all the s**t you do.
I hate how poorly workers are treated. They're treated like mere cogs in a machine.
All in all we're just another brick in the wall
Load More Replies...The food waste really hurts. And I learned that you always should have replacement pants at work - and a pair of matching shoes.
It’s unfortunate, but they can’t sell stuff that’s determined to be outside of safe temperatures. And the ice cream one seems like that stuff had been sitting without power for at least 10 hours since they said it happened at 7 pm and it’s clearlu past dawn in the photo.
Load More Replies...One very hot day when I was working in downtown Seattle, a truck carrying a dozen or so barrels of pig guts started up Marion Street, a hill right next to my workplace, and the chain at the back of the truck holding the barrels in broke. All those barrels tumbled out, coating the street with several inches of gore. We caught wind of what happened way back in the repair shop when the driver came into the store to use the phone to call his boss, leaving footprints of greasy, smelly slime on the carpet. I still remember watching the poor truckdriver getting started scraping up the mess in the street, his head hanging low. The company cleaned it up, but an aromatic memory was with us all through that heatwave.
I love looking at photos like these. That’s only because I can get anxious at work, thinking that nothing could get better. That is until I remember that photos like these exist, enabling me to think, “At least I’m not these people.”