Having a terrible day at work can be frustrating, overwhelming, and even demoralizing. Whether it's a challenging project, an annoying colleague, or just a series of misfortunes, sadly, there are plenty of reasons you might feel like you're a failure.
But as Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon sang, "It's just a bad day / Not a bad life." And one of the ways to recover is by venting online. So we at Bored Panda decided to remind ourselves that the universe hasn't conspired against any of us. From time to time, everyone runs into some (undeserved) adversity.
Continue scrolling to see all the messed-up nonsense people have had to deal with on the job! And when you're done, see more fails previously posted here.
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I Work In Mosquito Control. Everyday I Go Into Vacant Lots, Holding Ponds Swamps, Low Areas, Woodlands And Onto Residence Properties. This Is Typical Of What I Find
I've lost my faith in humanity. What we do defines us and this is what we do. We are not stewards of the land or caretakers. We are a blight. We are just vultures picking at the carcass of a dying world.
I wanted to say some people are like animals, but animals wouldn't make such a mess :(
My tortoise would. He likes to stomp s**t into his own food bowl, drag his leaf salad into his water trough and then take apart his coconut hide. He wrecks everything with glee.
Load More Replies...In some parts of the world humans do not behave like this so please don't lump us altogether or lose hope. I'm indigenous and my tribe work so hard at environmental care-taking and restoration, despite all the losses we carry. This is not human behaviour, it's a**hole behaviour.
No, vultures perform an incredibly important service: With their thoroughness and extraordinary digestive system, they clean up the source of possible disease before it can harm other animals. We do not contribute anything positive to the planet in any way. Even in death we hang on and refuse to give back as food or compost to other species.
Oh no, the world is going to be just fine after we're gone. It's the life that is dying on it.
Yes. We're killing ourselves. Once we become extinct the world will continue and another species will take over. We're just a blip on the evolution radar scope.
Load More Replies...We're not vultures, we're a plague of locusts that wipe out and destroy everything in our path.
Yes, lots of people suck. But I've seen many acts of kindness. I and my family participated in the RNC protests in 2004 in NYC. We saw a familiar face on the other side of the barricades on a side street and waved and yelled hello. It was Pete Seeger picking up and throwing out trash. When I was being treated for breast cancer the amount of people supporting me was wonderful. The actions of individuals do matter.
This planet will do just fine without all us humans constantly destroying it - it will recover well once we exterminate ourselves
Life has suffered worse than humans and come out just fine. Life as we know it might be different, and humans certainly might exterminate ourselves, but the idea that we even could permanently scar the earth so badly that life would never recover is it's own anthropocentric hubris. In the grand scheme all our glass and plastic and nukes and fossil fuel use will mar the earth, but not stop life from thriving. We are more likely to be a blip than anything substantial, even if that blip seems really bad to us.
Load More Replies...OP of all people should know that’s the result of being in a swampy low ground area. Water has washed all that mess there, that’s why it looks that way everywhere he goes. Yes, we consume and make too much garbage. I’m just saying all of this could have been washed here by a flood as easily as anything else. If he’s feeling like he’s cleaning up after trashy people, he’s probably wrong.
I Work As A Valet And Make $3.85/Hour And I Received This As A Tip
These are in fact pretty common, most often being used as "tips" by certain groups of "Christians". ( I use the scare quotes because, while these people will tell you they are Christians [ loudly and often ], their behavior usually demonstrates few if any of the principles Jesus advocated for. )
Load More Replies...I would donate them to the churches charity box! Hopefully then they'd see how annoying and nasty they are!?
We had been at our church for 18 years and hosted a summer Bible study. One week the group leader devoted the entire time to what I call ambush techniques. Hand a homeless man a $100 bill. When he looks at it and sees it’s not real but a Bible verse, now he’s engaged with you and ready to listen! My husband and I thought, yeah by justifiably punching you in the neck. We switched churches after that. Talk about directly violating more than a few unambiguous verses.
I had the misfortune of being a Mormon missionary. My leader was upset that we weren't converting "high quality" people (a.k.a. white collar executive types like himself). So his idea was that we 19-21-year olds should show up unannounced at offices and tell the receptionist we had critical information about the wellbeing of the top guy's family (a man whose name we probably wouldn't know). In the deluded mind of my leader, the boss would be so concerned something happened or would happen to them that he'd be anxious to learn what we had to say. Our message was supposed to be that he and his family risked not spending eternity in Heaven. I was a fairly ignorant kid, but even I knew such fakery would not be well received. [Fast forward a few years and our leader was convicted of fraud and absconding with clients' money.]
Load More Replies...It makes me wonder if that could be classed as a form of counterfeit too… XD
Load More Replies...I find these extremely distasteful and would have a completely negative reaction.
I used to get these as a waitress in college. The restaurant would ban people who tried to peddle anything.
That's terrible. While I always enjoy reading philosophy or a message from the Lord, disguising it as money is appalling.
Load More Replies...This makes me so mad as a Christian. Give the fake 5 if thats your thing, sure. But how about you do it inside an awesome tip because theres no way any server is thinking, hmmmm, Jesus must be the best after this
I wanted to upvote this times 100! You SO nailed it!
Load More Replies...I got one of these but it was a 20. I put it in their donation box.
Getting dealt a bad hand at work isn't the end of the world. Especially for content employees. According to Annie McKee, Ph.D., who is a best-selling business book author and advisor to top global leaders, from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to government officials, those who are engaged with their jobs and colleagues work harder — and smarter. But that's quite rare.
"Far too many couldn’t care less about what’s happening around them," McKee wrote in Harvard Business Review. "For them, Wednesday is 'hump day' and they’re just working to get to Friday. And then there’s the other end of the bell curve — that nearly one out of five employees is actively disengaged. These people are sabotaging projects, backstabbing colleagues, and generally wreaking havoc in their workplaces."
Sorry Class, My Dog Ate Everyone's Homework
and this young boys and girls is the result of feeding your teachers' doggo all those treats ..well played :D
No, this is a result of having a bored and innapropriate pet which needs more exercise than your job will allow.
Load More Replies...If one of my teachers said that and i forgot to do my home work I would be so happy because she would not find out
As A Practical Joke, Some Coworkers Wrapped My Office In Foil. In The Process, My 30" LCD Monitor Was Accidentally Turned On, And It Boiled Itself
Here's what it looked like when I unwrapped it.
I hope this came out of their paychecks and you were given compensation for this damage.
If the monitor is owned by the company the employee isn't entitled to compensation, they'll just get a replacement monitor.
Load More Replies...Haha, thinking the same thing. This is the blue screen of death after you’ve been condemned to burn in hell for eternity!
Load More Replies...Got Fired For “Telling The Boss How To Do His Job” When All I Did Was Say “We Can’t Obstruct A Fire Escape”
Yes!! Call the fire marshal AND OSHA
Load More Replies...That’s some nice flammable material to put in front of the fire escape as well. Maybe the boss thought the door was meant to let the fire escape, not people.
Oh yea, calls & photos to the Fire Marshal (XYZ corporation has blocked fire exits), calls to local media (XYZ corporation fires people for pointing out safety hazards) , and contacting a lawyer. Also ccing everything to my former boss's boss and their boss.
Here's where you call the Fire Marshall and report the business. If they go out of business or get a massive fine, OH WELL.
"Disengaged, unhappy people aren’t any fun to work with, don’t add much value, and impact our organizations (and our economy) in profoundly negative ways," McKee explained.
"It’s even worse when leaders are disengaged because they infect others with their attitude. Their emotions and mindset impact others’ moods and performance tremendously. After all, how we feel is linked to what and how we think. In other words, thought influences emotion, and emotion influences thinking."
If You're A Parent And Let Your Kids Make A Mess Like This
I understand that kids are really messy, and it is hard to take care of them, but have some respect and clean up after them.
I used to manage a restaurant and as I got paid a decent wage any tables left like this I would clean as I didn't think it fair to let me staff in minimum wage (owner finally increased this to living wage after I badgered him constantly). One day a family left the table in an awful mess and I had a migraine and was extra annoyed, the mum came over and asked for a broom and dust pan and brush etc to clean it herself as "my baby did it, I'll clean it up" and I nearly cried on her shoulder!
I deeply feel this as a prior server and now as a mom. I've actually done that same thing bc it is not ok for someone to clean up my kids c**p. IF I've ever not been able to clean, I at least leave a much bigger tip.
Load More Replies...This is disgusting! I NEVER let my kids do this when we went out. I always made sure to clean up as much as possible after my kids. Show some respect for yourself and other people.
So much for setting a good example eh? I would imagine they were a nightmare to serve too, and left no tip or some small change. How did it get that bad? I'd have had a word if I was there.
Load More Replies..."Someone else will take care of it." That is the mentality these days.
Restaurants literally have people whose job it is to bus tables. But if your kids were to make such a mess I’d hope you’d leave a really big tip. The waitress shares a portion of the tips with the busboy. That said, I always tidy up my table before we leave, even when my kids were little.
Load More Replies...If they leave their table like this, I do not want to see their house
me, after spilling one drop of water on the table at a resturaunt: oh no I am a burden to the server's existence
Teach your kids to clean up after themselves! And start EARLY! This is disgusting.
Always ban people who do this, then inform your neighbouring restaurants to do the same - I've done it several times and it's very satisfying !!
Two Domino's Workers After Their Shift In San Antonio, Texas Today. All Food Gone In 4 Hours
i worked at dominos for 2.5 years not only did it get exhausting, but depending on time of year could be upwards of 90 F (32 C) inside in the middle of summer. Sometimes even hotter.
Load More Replies...I remember this. It was during that storm when Texas lost power. These poor workers slung out a whole weekend’s worth of ingredients in four hours. They were one of few places able to serve customers.
Well, don't you know, it's not a "real job", so they are expected to do it, keeping the place open ideally 24/7, without enough money to support themselves. Because LOGIC! /s
Load More Replies...The sad part is they worked themselves quickly to exhaustion, and now will only get paid for a half shift because they'll be sent home... after they clean
It's not factory work...you make the pizza when someone orders the pizza. You can't stretch out the work. People would get pissed their pizza is taking so long
Load More Replies...Domino's CEO gets paid more than 7 million dollars a year for this, about 125,000 8-hour shifts for the minimum earners. That's around 480 years for one employee.
Yeah, but look at the way he increases shareholder value! As far as the workers, if they would just apply themselves, maybe they could advance to a job where they can make mega bucks by f*****g over the workers just like the other CEOs.
Load More Replies...I know this feeling personally....nice job on keeping a clean kitchen through all the hectic...I'd buy y'all a drink if I knew where to send the $$$
I have had those days where our store was open earlier and later hours because of a holiday for some stupid reason. Our policy was if people came in before we locked the doors they had every right to sit for however long and eat. We closed at midnight and sometimes wouldnt be leaving until 3am. I remember dreaming I was sitting in front of the dooors crying begging people to go away. Mind you I was 16yr old at the time and still had to go to school the next morning. Working in the food industry is the worst
I thought underage workers have limited hours of being able to work. That's the law in my state anyway.
Load More Replies...it was the only game in town that day… there was no power for a few days in texas and a few places could actually open.
Load More Replies...I feel for them.They need massages with relaxing music,or long luxurious baths or showers,something soothing to drink,and bed.Sweet,uninterrupted sleep.And somebody,preferably a rude customer,to come in and clean up that mess,restock if needed,prep work,and be yelled at the entire time.So they know how it feels!
And now comes the hardest part of their day - having to clean the store while dealing with angry people demanding food. Even locking the doors (if the manager allowed it) wouldn't be enough; you'd still get idiots pounding on the glass & swearing at the top of their lungs about how "lazy" the workers are.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Completely. Last job I left, my boss told me to just delete all my accounts. I'm not too tec savvy so I asked the IT department to help me make sure all the shared stuff was saved somewhere. Turned out I had loads of stuff that was important that needed transfering.
Load More Replies...IDK about blaming the manager on this one though. Why on earth would employee emails be linked to the entire company's events calendar? That's poor set up on IT's part.
I’m imagining If the employee was the receptionist or executive assistant and kept the calendar through outlook or something. You’d think it’d be shared though or could still be retrieved.
Load More Replies...Consequences Of Working In A -10°C Lab Where I Have To Wash My Hands 40 Times A Day
I feel so sorry for you. I guess a good hand cream won't quite do the job?
My hands got like this while I was working retail in the heart of the pandemic. Lotions and creams help, but after a while, your skin just gives up XD
Load More Replies...O’Keeffe's Working Hands is made for exactly this situation. It's great!
Vaseline thick overnight in medical gloves, keep doing that until you are healed.
My wife's been doing that for the last 14 years that were married. It improves but after a few days working (she's a nurse), it's back to being damaged :(
Load More Replies...Jojoba oil! I have severe psoriasis, jojoba doesn't cure this beast but my word it makes it much less painful and my skin drinks it up. I'm still a flakefest, waiting for approval for a new drug but I will forever use jojoba cause gurl, I'm pushing 38 and am still wrinkle free! Silver linings eh?
I don't know of it is available where you are - have you tried Sorion? It's ayurvedic and uses neem oil. The smell is ...well, could be worse... however, it really does wonders for my psoriasis!
Load More Replies...never worked in a medical lab, but my hands looked like this every winter while I worked in the food industry. (required gloves for ever job except Dominos.) pineapple juice, canned red peppers, and jalapeno brine burn like a m**o
i have ocd and often wash my hands into oblivion so my hands often look something like that. i know it’s not the same but hopefully i can help. i always mix petroleum jelly, vitamin e oil, and a little bit of aloe vera. put it on the dry skin before bed and put cotton gloves or socks over your hands. it helps me, i hope it can help you
Bag Balm. I highly, highly recommend using this petroleum-based product. We used this on our goat's teats to keep them from chapping, and I've been using it for over 50 years. Use on hands/feet with gloves/socks before bed.
I was a surgical RN for many years. My hands often look like that after scrubbing in on 10 to 12 cases a day.
McKee thinks it’s time to finally blow up the myth that feelings don’t matter at work.
"Science is on our side: there are clear neurological links between feelings, thoughts, and actions. When we are in the grip of strong negative emotions, it’s like having blinders on," she said. "We focus mostly — sometimes only — on the source of the pain. We don’t process information as well, think creatively, or make good decisions. Frustration, anger, and stress cause an important part of us to shut down —the thinking, engaged part. Disengagement is a natural neurological and psychological response to pervasive negative emotions."
Two Teams Of Builders Was Building A Bike Lane "On The Right-Hand Side" (Mariupol, Ukraine)
Probably realised a long time before but which team is going to undo all their work, then redo it?
Load More Replies...A dark joke for them, certainly. "Hey, remember that bike lane we messed up? Doesn't matter, now! Guess we can do it right second time around." ...... "So which side is the red brick going to be on, then?"
Load More Replies...C**p happens, its not the brick layers fault, its the frikking foreman's fault, he's the One that f it up.
In the rail industry, we use the terms "up" or "down" to describe rail lines. Up is travel towards central, down is travel away from central. Its simple and it works.
Or, in London, Crossrail - cos it gets really angry.
Load More Replies...And it's never in engineering plans pictures and descriptions using N/S/E/W so that nonsense like this doesn't occur??
There's no sand or mortar between the pavers. You can just pick them right back up. I feel this is staged. JMO.
2 Hours Into A 10-Hour Shift When A Passenger Asks If I Know About The Stowaway On My Bus
Spiderbus, Spiderbus, pay your fare or I'll bite you, wuss
Load More Replies...If it's a huntsman spider, which is harmless to humans, I'd let it chill. Nervously. Keeping an eye on it at all times.
Yep. Every Aussie has just laughed at the comments of everyone else freaking out! Huntsman are harmless just big and rather fast
Load More Replies...Are we the only two who wouldn’t burn the bus down? XD I like spiders and insects. Huge fluffy spiders and Daddy Longlegs are my personal favorites.
Load More Replies...That's the spider you want on the bus- it'll eat the stuff you do NOT want on the bus...
I would have jumped out even if the bus was going full speed nope nope....the upside of living in Minnesota(usa, frozen north 🥶)is that it freezes long enough that bugs can't grow this big
The only passenger brave enough to stay on that bus would be Chuck Norris!!! I'd be in the next Country ...
I love how everyone's terrified of the humble Huntsman spider. Those things are giant wimps. Their reaction to a human getting too close isn't "deadly bite" - it's "flee in terror".
I Work In A Mall With An Indigo Book Store And Found This Yesterday, It Really Pissed Me Off
Agreed. I’d actually be willing to crawl into that dumpster/trash can and rescue all those books.
Load More Replies...I've worked at a book seller some time ago and this is a normal occurrence with remaindered paperbacks that just won't sell.. From what I can see the front covers are torn off to be sent back to the publisher as proof. Book sellers, even the big stores, cannot afford to return the entire book due to the cost of shipping.
Yes, Patrick Linnen. Was the same when I worked at a book store.
Load More Replies...Why? Surely a charity shop would have loved those donated to them :(
Or a library! Or a hospital! Or a prison! Or anywhere besides the dumpster! Argh!
Load More Replies...Trust me that the workers hate it too. The publishers require that if the book doesn't sell within its run, you rip off the front cover to send back to them for a refund then you must, by law, throw out the rest.
Book stores are contractually required to dispose of or destroy unsold books after they return the covers to the publisher for a refund. If they sold or gave away these books, they could be criminally charged with fraud.
correct, once you have claimed a credit for a sale-or-return book, the book technically belongs to the publisher.
Load More Replies...To everyone saying they could be donated or given away: the bookstore only gets a credit for the unsold stock if the covers are returned both as proof of unsold stock and to render the stock unsaleable. Margins are relatively low in bookselling (higher than grocery, which relies on volume, but much, much lower than fashion) and booksellers can't afford to give up the credits. This style of credit management is generally restricted to very mass market titles such as specific romance brands.
This is part of the return process. Doesn't pay for or want the whole book, just the cover.
Used to work at Borders. We had to do the same exact thing. Rip off the front cover (to send to the publisher, proving that we didn't sell the book) & throw the entire book into the trash. If someone took the book for themselves (without the front cover) it was considered theft.
If books don't sell, book stores are legally required to tear off the cover and discard. As a librarian (and former Waldenbooks employee) I don't like it, either, but millions of new books are published every year. If we didn't discard, we'd be awash.
New Guy Tried To Empty The Fryer Grease Into A Plastic Bucket
Would have worked if the fat were not hot.... I'd never try to replace it when hot - too much risk of burns, so 2 mistakes, surely?
I hope he had to clean it up, but also that he didn't get in trouble because when you're new, often times people aren't willing to help teach you, but get angry when you mess up
Agreed. The others should have helped him, since he was new.
Load More Replies...No. But it needs to go into a big metal stock pot.
Load More Replies...Cat litter. Lots of cat litter. Then you can sweep and mop.
Load More Replies...I thought that was the colour of the floor until I saw the edges
Drained and changed fryer oil for 11 years. Drain it at the end of a shift into a metal cauldron, through a metal sieve with a coffee filter-type filter. Scour the fryer with warm fat and a steel wool or fiberglass pad, rinsing with some of the filtered fat and let drain again. Either fill it again with clean new shortening or leave it until the morning. ALWAYS ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE VALVE IS CLOSED BEFORE ADDING NEW SHORTENING!
However, it’s not just negative emotions we need to watch out for. "Extremely strong positive emotions have the same effect," McKee said.
"Some studies show that too much happiness can make you less creative and prone to engage in riskier behaviors (think about how we act like fools when we fall in love!). On the work front: I’ve seen groups of people worked up into a frenzy at sales conferences and corporate pep rallies. Little learning or innovation comes out of these meetings. Throw in a lot of alcohol and you’ve got a whole host of other problems."
So it sounds like having your suspenders stuck in your chair every once in a while can be actually quite beneficial.
They Can't Pay A Living Wage But I'll Waste Hundreds On Food Waste
These are probably beyond date. Can't legally sell them, can't legally give them away.
Load More Replies...It's illegal to do this in France and some other European countries. Any leftovers must be distributed to charities or needy people.
But only for some years now. Before that, it was even illegal do take the food out of the garbage bins, because legally that was "stealing". In Germany taking food from garbarge bins is called "containern" and many got sued for doing it. Too weird...
Load More Replies...I worked at a famous UK chemists. Every even they toss away dozens of sandwiches. Why? Because before the gave it to a charity that gave them to the homeless. Until some homeless sued them over food poisoning
cant that be distributed or given to the needy, that's so disgusting throwing away food.
Do you know if those are definitely still perfectly save to eat? Or do you think the needy should be fed low grade food? Are you aware that there are quite a couple of incidents where shops did give away leftover food that was fine and that got sued, after someone got sick? That's why many stopped.
Load More Replies...These are clearly from a vending machine, and the prepared food probably isn't healthy anymore. "They" didn't waste the money, you didn't buy the food. They took a lump, and if they are any good at cost accounting, won't give you as much, leaving you hungry next week, when you forget your lunch.
How many people could that have fed? And this is only one store on one day.
When I was in high school I used to fill a 50gal trash can with overproofed pizza dough every night. Just because Pizza Hut was never allowed to run out of pizza.
Reminds me of most of the places I have worked. Such a litigious society that if you donate food that is "expired" you have to accept the liability for any sickness that could occur from ingesting bad food. So instead perfectly fine (even though "expired") food is thrown away instead of giving it to people in need.
Worked in a bakery many years ago that threw out bins worth of bread at the end of each day. I managed to convince the owners to put them in clean garbage bags and donate them to the soup kitchen down the street. Because food waste is stupid in a land with so much hunger.
It infuriates me!! I did fast food and the amount of food that was tossed at the end of the day was insane! I get that they're afraid of litigation,what if somebody gets sick,but there's got to be something that can be done to prevent so much waste.There are hungry people out there!!
Stayed At Work For The Storm. This Is The Road I Take Home
Looks to me like the road was definitely taken.
Load More Replies...HOLY SH** DORA GIVE ME YOUR BACKPACK *takes her backpack and takes out a bridge* that’s better ahaha
Got Laid Off Today With Zero Notice, Found All My Stuff Already In A Box When I Got To Work
Actually, depends on the place and reason for being fired. I worked for several years in a bank's processing center. There was one guy who was stealing money from the bank (normally if a deposit slip total was off by $10 one way or the other we just used a bank over/short slip, but he was using altered slips that placed the difference into his personal account). When he was caught, he wasn't even allowed back into the building past the security checkpoint, and the supervisor and HR rep packed his stuff.
Load More Replies...Not in the US I am afraid. It’s called “At Will” employment and is not only legal, but commonplace here.
Load More Replies...When I got let go from my last job for a total b******t reason, my office manager had already packed up all my personal belongings and handed them to me during our meeting with HR. Worst part is my co-worker texted me earlier that day and asked if I was alright and she told me what the office manager was doing. Needless to say, I was VERY upset in that HR meeting....
When I got let go for a BS reason and was very upset they told me to come back after hours to get my stuff. But then decided it would be better for my supervisor to pack it all up and bring it to me at home...none of this ok.
Load More Replies...Had this happen last year. I put in my 2 weeks notice, which I actually let them know 6 weeks in advance that I was leaving. That gave them plenty of time to hire and let me train someone new. About 2 weeks after I gave them the notice I clocked out on Friday afternoon and everything was normal. When I got to work the following Monday, my personal items were no where to be found. When I confronted them turns out they were locked in his wife's car. I lost my s**t and quit on the spot. That was not the first time she had gone through our personal items. Needless to say, they cannot keep employees. Since I left, they have gone through 12 people for my position. I just laugh now.
Wow, that’s harsh, sorry this happened to you, on to bigger and better now
I always wonder when I see people in the US leaving jobs with a box of possessions what it is that they are carrying. I only ever took a pen to work in an office, everything else belonged to the company..
It is common in the tech industry, in order to minimize risk to code, data or IP. That said, our company always had security accompany the person so they could pack up their own things, two or more weeks ((depending on seniority) paid as well as all accumulated vacation. We then organized a nice little party or send off, unless the person was fired because of unprofessional behaviour.
Over 2,000 Pounds Of Fresh Pork Being Rejected By The Walmart Distribution Center Because The Sell By Dates Occur When Their Stores Are Closed For Thanksgiving
This product will still be safe to eat for the next 15 days but they won't even attempt to sell it. This will end up in a dumpster today.
The pigs wouldn’t be happier if their corpses got sold. They didn’t want to die even for a good reason.
Load More Replies...Sadly, in most cases fresh meat goes to the dumpster only. It's "more expensive and a problem of responsibility to give it away for free" - heard that from a person who dumped a few hundred pounds of fresh meat the day before Christmas. It's not even going to be burnt for gaining energy from the process. It will just be wasted! And that's why I want some first world governments to not allow such massive overproduction of meat what makes it cheaper to get thrown than to be given to those who would appreciate some free food! IMHO a real possibility to significantly reduce animal misery!
Load More Replies...We're dumpster divers and Walmart LOCKS THEIR DUMPSTERS so you can't recycle, use or donate anything from them! Family is worth billions and billions and they can't be kind enough to let people help other people with what they waste.
Not that is agree, but they do it to keep from getting sued if someone gets sick. Some place pour bleach and other stuff like that too deter.
Load More Replies...No, it wont end up in the dumpster, the person who posted this doesnt understand how the food industry works. If Walmart rejects it, the supplier then goes and re-sells them to other customers. There is a whole system set up for this in place. I know people in the meat industry
I know people in the dumpster industry. OP is/was correct. This will end up in the trash.
Load More Replies...Animals suffered during their short lives without any daylight, ripped away from their mothers and transported for hours in packed trucks before being prodded into a building reeking of death and terror for absolutely nothing. There was a time when our ancestors gave thanks to the creatures who gave themselves up so humans could eat.
Since nobody can prepare for the unexpected (just the way they can react to it), it isn't surprising that workers worry about other things.
"One could argue that today's employees are as equally stressed as their predecessors, but for different reasons," said Jodi Chavez, president of Atlanta-based Randstad Professionals, a segment of Randstad US, which provides finance, accounting, HR, sales, marketing, legal staffing and recruitment services. "They fear having their jobs outsourced to another country, have anxiety about how best to work alongside new technologies such as automation and robotics, have increased financial pressures with rising student loan debt and late retirement, and feel pressure to be 'on' and answering e-mails 24/7."
Absolutely Shattered
I genuinely thought it was either ice or a perfectly timed photo of water coming outta the truck-
I saw this in person… Glass transport to the local window manufacturer. Traffic light went red, breaks applied too heavily causing mass of the entire load to shift forward breaking where strap attached inside container, and then buckle the door braces. Glass slid through and luckily didn’t injure the driver. Both sides of the road looked like piles of ice and snow, very messy clean up.
At The End Of Shifts, We Split The Tips Evenly. We Had More Than 50$ Of Tips And My Coworker Had To Leave About 10 Minutes Early She Ended Up Taking All But 2.50$
I'd call her out and then cut her out of the next tip split..give her only $2.50 in shares
Yes! I bet the place has at least one camera that caught her in the act.
Load More Replies...Exactly what I thought... she did not think of the long term implication, it seems.... unless someone was dying or something in that line, she'd better look for another job.
Load More Replies...Splitting tips should be illegal. Actually could quite possibly fall under wage tampering laws. Guarantee when you call out that worker she'll say something like "we'll y'all had the rest of the night to get tips so I figured you'd get that much from those customers" Yeah right, with 10 minutes left till closing time?
She should miss out on tips on the next biggest day... or on a big tip day, divide it, then take 48.00 out of her share to go to everyone else!
I Collect Carts At Walmart. Please Stop Being Lazy And Return Your Cart To Where It Belongs
It kills me--lazy bastards push the cart all over a huge store, but they can't walk ten steps to the cart corral.
It's especially lovely when they dump them in the disabled space (or the van loading area next to same).
Load More Replies...They still will if the carts are returned to the various corrals in the car park.
Load More Replies...At most places in Germany one has to put in a token or a Euro coin to use them.
When I see this… I legit wonder where all the cart returns are at. I mean… I see a few… WAY over yonder. Walmart needs more cart returns!
Additional I wonder if this is an American thing (car-society and all)... as in Europe you have to use coins (real money but also merchandise give-aways in the same size) to unlock a cart. This normally animates 99.5% of the people to return it also proper - and it prevents most teens to "steal" carts.
Load More Replies...Not returned to the corrals, but at least they seem to be put to the side. I'll give some credit. An attempt was made. It's usually worse. People leave them right beside where they parked their car, blocking access.
And the carts sometimes will bang up cars... I hate when people do this.
It was the same at a supermarket close to us. Then they replaced the carts to new ones that can be used only if you put in a HUF 100 (~USD 0.25) coin. Now everyone takes the carts back to the corral. Sometime homeless people ask for the carts and they push them back to get the coin. I'm OK with it.
OMG I Won I Won I Won
My old work used to give me unpaid time off every day. And then when I finally got laid off due to downsizing as part of my severance package I negotiated unlimited unpaid time off.
Clever boy. Took some serious negotiation, did it?
Load More Replies...So, you can not show up for work one day and not get fired for it. Nice!
I suppose as a slave that's a bonus. Land of the free, I suppose?
Load More Replies...how.nice. woo.hoo. And companies wonder why morale is in the tank and people are quitting en masse.
If that's the case I'd rather have the pizza... oh wait no, how about paid overtime or a raise?
In difficult times, you need to find an internal reserve of energy and hope to help you make your way through. In other words, you need to tap into your resilience.
"Like so many other human traits, resilience can be woven into the fabric of one’s being (nature) and/or it can be learned (nurture)," career and business coach Marjie Terry said.
"One’s natural disposition may lead them to always look on the bright side or to look for the silver lining. For others, with an accumulation of life experience, they develop a resilience perspective and realize that, as the old saying goes, what doesn’t break you makes you stronger. They develop an ability to recognize that it’s important to keep going even when life hands you challenge after challenge—they develop perspective."
Sometimes, there really isn't much else we can do but endure. And laugh!
Something Went Wrong With The Line Painting
I like how they're just standing there like 'Yeah, that's a problem.'
“So what do we do?” “I say we leave it and never come back.”
Load More Replies..."It's not a mistake! We're painting the Equator line so it can be seen from space!"
🎵 follow the yellowbrick road, follow the yellowbrick road, follow the, follow the, follow the follow the yellowbrick road🎶
When you don't want people on your driveway... This is what to do, maybe with red paint!
Paint Truck Breaks Long-Standing Speed Record - Hits 88 MpH
Colleague Definitely Drew The Short Straw On Email Naming Conventions
We had a lot of foreign contractors work at my company at one time, we had a "last name first initial' email naming policy, I was always sure to ask them first if the naming was ok and not inappropriate for their language, and was always sure to check new names. We could also set up aliases if they wanted a 'personalized' favorite email name.
I heard about a Melissa Finger who had the email address for four years of "fingerme".
I’m a female, with B. Alcock. That was a fun 6 months of email until we changed to a new address format.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately my first initial and last name spell something too and I always end up with a stupid looking email address. Thankfully it's not as bad as this one though! I'd die.
A shart is when you fart and accidentally poop a little. $hit/fart.
Load More Replies...My old workmate (Phil) had the unfortunate surname of Hart....phart@
Sgt. Vanderheiden Got His Suspenders Stuck In A Chair Yesterday, But Some Helpful Friends Came To The Rescue
In the UK "suspenders" hold up sexy stockings. Them things are braces.
Well, could be worst..... It could have been his coleagues tapping him to the chair as a joke....some day Im gonna get my Revenge though....
Everyone is arguing about suspenders and braces here. Have you ever considered that it’s ok to have different words for things? It really doesn’t matter.
That's correct. You say Mr President, we say "Fücking ärsehole".
Load More Replies...Lol Appleton Wisconsin. I used to live in Appleton. Their police were pretty good.
Perhaps police ought not wear thinks that others, including chairs, can grab.
Guy At Work Dropped So Much Oil We Got Invaded By The US Government
I think it's just referring to the fact that when countries are found to have hidden oil reserves, governments of other countries (specifically the US in this post) tend to invade them to get the oil for themselves, it's kind of a sarcastic joke
Load More Replies...Girlfriend Works At A Local Target And Had A Family Stroll In And Do All This
Ahh, retail. I worked in vitamins and supplements. Having flashbacks to families with undisciplined children who loved to hurl the glass vitamin bottles onto the floor.
Omg I can feel the scene… as my friend worked at a retail store and I was once helping her out with this ridiculous situation: a gang of teenagers raided the store and broke everything there was to break, stole food, and then brought nothing and smashed the glass windows with a bat.
Load More Replies...One day a year shop workers should be allowed to visit the homes of these people and do the same.
Nah the devils do a great clean up job of roadkill, they drag the whole carcass away and eat it. These losers are more like brushtail possums- chew holes in your rubbish bags and spread s**t everywhere. Southern hemisphere trash pandas
Load More Replies...People are pigs. My first job in high school was a dressing room attendant. We’d ask customers to please bring all clothes back out when they were done and more than half would either throw the clothes they didn’t want at you or “forget”. You’d find all the clothes left in a pile on the floor. Recently I went to Macys where there’s no such thing as an attendant. I walked into one of dressing rooms which, no lie, had a 3’ high pile of clothes. People who do that just don’t realize their behavior is what raises prices because of the extra work it takes for employees to clean up or even damage clothes that can’t be sold.
How people's behaviour would change if the carnage and their ID was posted on their IG account...
Load More Replies...Yep! I did my time in retail at a Sears store.. some people shouldn't be allowed to shop in-person.
I would have had security throw them out of the store while I lobbed shoes at them!
People should be fined for vandalizing stores/restaurants by leaving ‘messes.’ I once was a designer in partnership with another designer- we had a high end retail shop. A couple of stuck up b**tches came in and literally ransacked our store…. Upon straightening up the carnage I came across her very high end, very expensive prescription sunglasses…. She asked if I had found them, I replied ‘no I hadn’t.’ She then asked to speak with the owner or the manager. I gave her a Cheshire Cat grin, ‘yes, that would be me.’ Needless to say, those glasses met a very unfortunate end. If someone is going to deliberately be an asshat, then, the kid gloves shall come off!
Load More Replies...Coworker Found A Surprise At The Bottom Of Their Cup This Morning
Come on, how much can the little guy actually drink? lizard-63a...6622e5.jpg
And then you find mor lizards in your vomit-
Load More Replies...He was waiting till they were done with their coffee so he could talk to them about Geico car insurance.
I need to know if he's still alive (?) - It isn't logical that he'd still be alive, but I really need him to be okay.
When You Have A Long, Active Day Surrounded By People, Then Get Home, Take Off Your Work Pants, And Just Stare At The 6" Tear Straight Down Your Back End
I was closing late one night and it was just me and the restaurant GM. I was getting ready yo leave and he notices a bar towel in my back pocket. Then he realizes I've just worked an 8hr shift with torn pants. He quietly hand the towl back and wishes me a good night.
This happened to me once. I got fired that day. They never mentioned my bare a*s. I was mortified when I got home. Currently cringing just thinking about if, thanks bp
I ripped the seam inside a pair of slacks a few inches below the zipper. Spent the entire day mortified a coworker would see my upper thigh. No one said anything but I did get asked why I was walking funny. Said I hurt my back
And thats why I wear leggings under my jeans so at least if that happens they see pants cause my customers wouldn't say a word🤣🤣🤣
They not your friends if they don't tell you about a hole in your pants, salad stuck in your teeth or a "woman's spot" on their clothes! Those people suck!!!
Last Night Someone Tried To Steal A Car From The Dealership I Work At
They can practice by trying to fit through the window bars in jail.
Load More Replies...Yeah, of course they had to take the good one. Gawd!
Load More Replies...I Finished Rolling My Silverware After An Eleven-Hour Shift, Only To Have The Drawer I Loaded It In The Break And Fall To The Floor. I'm So Done With Today
Put back the ones that havent touched thr floor. Re-roll everything else. You don't want to be responsible for food-poisoning or diseases customers might get.
Load More Replies...Atleast someone didn't spill a drink all over it forcing it to be rewashed then rerolled.. I don't miss being a waitress
5 Minutes Into My Maintenance Shift I Get Called Up To The Public Bathroom, This Is What I Found
That was *some* projectile s**t. Killed the entire toilet! (And to the people who downvote eveything, this is a joke, this is obviously on purpose and very s****y for someone to do)
Apparently last used by someone over capacity. Get the duct tape and gorilla glue
Can't Get Into Work This Morning Because The Closer Didn't Realize They Took Home The Core To The Door Lock
Some people are barely there after a long shift. I once for the life of me couldn't remember if I'd even counted the money, since I'd been so very much on auto pilot. Had to go back and check...
Load More Replies...Out did the core come out? Should that have been screwed in or secured some how?
Some locks are designed to have the core come out.
Load More Replies...Completely worn out, the pin or shaft holding in the core no longer doing its job.
Load More Replies...I prefer key rings with a float, not an anchor…
Load More Replies...I'm A Night Custodian At A High School. This Is What The First Day Of School Looks Like
I honestly saw the picture and thought it was the last day of school (where some schools let the kids throw all of their papers as a celebration) before I saw the caption. How does this happen on the first day though?
If I was in a position of authority at this school, I would make the kids clear this up. Including the mirrors and the toilet bowls. They need to learn respect.
Yeah and then they get the f.cking parents come to complain by the manager. It’s not the job of the school to teach manners to those sorry to say again f.cking spoiled kids. I am sorry for my f words bud I truly get pissed on those people and who raised them, who have no manners or respect.
Load More Replies...2nd day of school: My principal locks all the bathrooms and order port-a-potties for the kids to do their business in. He would NOT tolerate this!
Kids are disgusting. My school Finnaly got period products in the bathrooms but now stupid idiots are wetting tampons and throwing them on the ceiling. Like cmon?? Now they’re threatening to take the products away and I am not gonna go buy pads.
That is some BS. I think the American educational system is obsolete and the youth are rebelling.
Pretty sure that's not an American school. Based on the type of sink.
Load More Replies...In Japan there are no janitors for school. We had to clean the school ourselves top to bottom after the end of each school day. Including the bathrooms.We did not have flush toilets, we had latrines. Yep, we cleaned those, too!
Colleague Stepping On A Wet Concrete
Yikes! Cement burns are a serious thing! Let’s hope he cleaned up thoroughly and quickly.
I just recently heard a story about someone who put their hands in cement on a dare and waited too long to extricate themselves. The cement burns were so bad, they lost the use of their hands permanently. :(
Load More Replies...Looks like a "gag shot". The cement looks pretty undisturbed, if he popped in accidentally.
Yeah, he must have jumped in because he sure didn’t walk in!
Load More Replies...Judging from lack of other disturbance in concrete and distance from any edge, I would say he jumped. But why?
No because he's good at covering his tracks
Load More Replies...I'm confused, based on the lack of footprints leading to where he is, he must have jumped, and there's no way anyone could be that stupid
Oh BS. That is not a ‘step’ at all. If it was a ‘step’ the guy would be much closer to the edge of the concrete, and he would not have both legs in it like that either. This person jumped into it to stage a photo.
Coworker Drove A Forklift Over A Can Of Oil
Silly goose! We don't clean up oil spills, we cause them...
Load More Replies...Or, rather, someone left a can of oil in the middle of the "road."
If you go read the original reddit post, it's actually roofing tar, not oil 😬
Different types of oil, different colors. Or this could havre been dirty used oil.
Load More Replies...Fresh Refurb At The Pub I Work At And Someone Decided To Write A Review Of The Paint Job
"You didn't sand or undercoat these doors!"
They’re right, though. The entire door is chipped and looks like c**p.
So, the reason someone might do this is because they were able to write that just with their fingernail. Nothing on that door is gonna stick at all.
I don't consider this real vandalism. That paint is going to peel off in sheets after a few weeks of use in a public area, the chips and that note are just the start of the mess. This actually may save the pub owner $$ if he can show this to the contractor and force them to do it right.
Bought Myself A Little Chair For When I Have To Program Robots For Long Hours At A Time At Work. Someone Over Capacity Borrowed It On The Off Shift
What?! Have the company waste money on employee comfort when it could be going into the pockets of the CEO and share-holders?!! Do you even know how capitalism works?
Load More Replies...Most of my family members are “over capacity”. It’s sad watching cousins who are younger than I am develop horrible health issues… and sometimes díe. :(
That is honestly one of my worst fears. I've lost a lot of weight but it still scares me that I'll sit down and whatever I sit on will just be destroyed
Ah man, I'm a hefty person and there is no way i would risk sitting on that... Also pay or replace what you broke with something as nice or nicer.
I Literally Just Got Home From My First Day Of Work
Scrolling thorough these posts do US citizens actually have any workers rights?
No lol it’s every man woman and child for themselves
Load More Replies...I was laid off 2 weeks before I was supposed to go on maternity leave. I was supposed to have insurance covered the rest of the month since I had already paid for it. They called the insurance company and told them I quit and terminated it right then. I found that out when I gave birth to my son. Yes, it is illegal but very hard to prove that it was because I was pregnant. Some employers just suck. And no, there are no workers rights. Even if you are supposed to be protected.
Good, they have given you written proof you were not fired, so you can collect unemployment.
Technically they are being made redundant. Same result for the employee but different outcomes for the company.
Load More Replies...I think this might make sense in a different way. I've never (in the US) heard the word "fired" used other than when you are dismissed from a job for doing something wrong (sexual harassment, stealing, i.e. something criminal or breaking policies). The expression "layed off" is what I hear when you are dismissed from a job because of downsizing or for other reasons. This explanation is about the "you are not being fired" and why it could be true, but still they could have provided some insight into the reason why.
You wouldn't get away with that in the UK. If you make someone redundant in a position that needs to be filled you have broken the law by laying that person off if you plan to refill the position. Point is, you're not allowed to lie about why you are terminating that persons post. Doesn't mean employers won't try but it does provide some safeguards.
Load More Replies...I Live In A Tiny Town (Less Than 10,000) And There's Only One Road In And Out. Whenever There's An Accident, Traffic Gets Jammed. It's My First Day At My New Job
But mostly with Sheep / Cattle on the roads ; or idiot Grockles pointing at stuff doing 10 mph .... (Lived in Cumbria, loved it ; not so much in the winter though x)
Load More Replies...At least you'll have an excuse. Half of your new co workers will also be late too, since they also live in the same town usually.
A tiny town of 10,000? I really do live in a tiny wee village in Scotland if 10000 is tiny
My tiny town, (city, actually) has 4 ways in or out and a population 300.
"less than 10.000" counts as "tiny town", lol. I mean, technically, three is also less than 10.000, but still..
First Day On The Job As A Pool Attendant And Some Lady Thought It Was A Good Idea To Dump An Entire Chocolate Fountain Into The Sink
Unfortunatly I think "the other stuff" would go away easier...
Load More Replies...If the chocolate was hard when she put it in the fountain, it's going to get hard again. Hopefully some hot water and drain cleaner would get that.
Very rarely is water hot enough these days, though
Load More Replies...Atleast the pool isn't so large! (Sorry! It looks really gross to clean! Hope the lady got to pay and you was given it).
Testing Out Our New Printer. Left The Room For 5 Minutes And Came Back To This
I used to fix printers. This made me laugh out loud, apologies to the tester
64K ENTERs then a period. This is how we blocked fax machines of the competition back in the '90s :)
A Colleague Tipped Over 7 Crates Full Of Wine Bottles
I mean, I don’t know where a cockroach’s tongue is but I’m guessing it’s in its head, soo… you might be out of luck
Load More Replies...This is in The Netherlands, so the employee has nothing to worry about. I expect it's a write off for the company. Insurance might be to expensive for something that doesn't happen that often.
Load More Replies...My First Day As A Delivery Guy At Domino's
Delivery drivers for pizza and stuff like that use their own cars in the US.
Load More Replies...Tweezers or needle nose pliers will still turn it off/on. Then head for a dealership for a new key.
When You've Had A Bad Day At Work, Just Remember Someone Else's Work Day Is Probably Much Worse
Eh. They’ll be fine. Just tap the lids a few times before ya open ‘em.
Or just let them sit for a while, they'll settle.
Load More Replies...I worked in warehouse of a grocery chain in Ontario, Canada. It was the first "long weekend" holiday ever in August. It's known as "Civic Holiday". One guy working a lift truck was super excited about it because he took a corner too wide and he hit the sweet spot of the metal racking used to store everything. Well when everything came falling down there were two pickers running for their lives down the aisle followed by a huge earthquake. Well, that's how the warehouse felt to me while everything came crashing down. My supervisor ended up breaking his wrist while helping to clean up the mess. What a crappy way to start a summer long weekend!
This is fine. None of them broke. THAT would be horrible. Everything sticky forever after that.
This is nothing. I've seen a highcube pallet of GLASS bottles go down. Not only did the warehouseman not get fired, he got promoted.
Seriously?!? Wow, the wrong people get all the good breaks!
Load More Replies...Just go ahead and open them. Even better, put a few on your bosses desk!
Remind me of a video of someone crashing into a high storage of large filled water-tanks. Three rows or more of water-tanks fell and broke. Hopefully the forklift driver made it out alive.
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0umLAetUA
Load More Replies...This Is The "Black" Coffee I Just Ordered From The Vending Machine At My Work. Good Morning To Me
Been there. Worse one that happened to me. The coffee machines at work have an automated cleaning cycle. It just finished filling my cup, then it beeped, locked the door and did the self cleaning cycle right into my cup of coffee.
Spilled Half A Pot Of Hollandaise On The Floor At Work. The Majority Of It Went Underneath The Cooler
Well...c**p..I guess slide it out and start cleaning there is probably something else under there too
Yeah it really sucks when you have to make something a second time (to be on par, bc they lost most of it), and pull every appliance back out in the kitchen a second time to clean under... These appliances are cleaned under every shift or you will get shut down by the health department! I suppose this luck is worse when you've worked 12 hours and then have to do everything a second time while being paid like c**p. This looks like a very clean kitchen, and these people work their butts off, so maybe don't be so degrading towards them, unfilteredcigarette73!!
Load More Replies...After reading about the unsanitary conditions in some restaurants on Bored Panda, my first cynical thought was to wonder if the majority of it went back in the cooler after the picture. See how the internet can color your view of the world?
None of it that spilled would have been put back.They have to make more again and pull every appliance out again to clean under. The cooler has wheels. It just really sucks when you've worked long hours and are basically done... this restaurant is clean and is not like the typical junk you see on the internet; this person is disparaged bc they are tired, have to remake sauce to be on par, and pull the appliances out again to clean under. It's just another s**t day in the restaurant industry!
Load More Replies...This sucks, bc not only do you have to make more, if it's the end of your shift and you've already cleaned, you get to do it again.
Its always something like hollandaise or eggs or fry oil and its awful to clean...but the time my kitchen buddy Bruce spilled an entire container of dry corn grits...it was like they were reproducing from the floor for days no matter what we cleaned
Load More Replies...Oh, that reminds me of the time I was taking a pan twice that deep, filled with baked beans, from atop one of the ovens. Spilled it all over myself and the kitchen.
Oh dear. So when you finally finished cleaning yourself and the kitchen, I guess everyone asked, "Where have you bean?"
Load More Replies...Reminds me of when I went to refill the pecans and the lid wasn't secure and about half the tub spilled on the floor
Crop your original contents level better next time. You might want to get a cup of it a toss it under that refrigerator so it oozes out from the floor for all to believe. Sorry this happened to you.
We have one of those fridges at work. There are wheels on the bottom, and it's quite lightweight. It's inconvenient to move but not difficult.
Cleaned My Glasses Too Hard. I Am At Work, Don't Have A Spare Pair
Superglue (but wait a whil;e before you put them back on or they become a permanent fixture)
Super glue and electrician tape. I wore glasses for over half a century since second grade. I had my lenses replaced with corrective lenses implanted into my eyes after I had cataracts in both eyes due to welding for decades. It's wonderful to not have to wear glasses! Now, for the ability to hear!
On My First Day As A Janitor Assigned To This Area Of My School, The Rain Flooded Everything
Then someone touches a lightswitch and they all get electrocuted!
Load More Replies...Just checking, you know people don't always have a choice if they want to eat?
Load More Replies...Key Broke Off Inside The Lock To A Very Important Work Door. Wonder How Much Trouble I Am In
If it is & he has IBS or Crohn's, he's in a LOT of trouble.
Load More Replies...Why would you be in trouble? It is not as if you could have done anything else. Sometimes manure happens.
Haha. When I was doing military stuff a liutenant did this 3 times in one day. The gas pump, our hut on the field and worst of all, the big weapon storage. He refused to handle keys after that.
He should have decided that after key number 2, rather than waiting to complete the trifecta. After all, they say bad things come in threes.
Load More Replies...It looks like someone tried breaking in from the looks of the doorjamb.
Amazon Employees Who Worked Over 10 Hours On Easter Sunday Were 'Lucky Enough' To Potentially Win A $2 Snack Pack
"Thank you all for coming in on Easter Sunday! We are going to run a contest for P2. Anyone picking over a 310 rate will be entered in a raffle for a snack pack (water/soda and a candy or bag of chips of your choice). Good Luck everyone and THANK YOU!!!"
A number of years ago; major hospital main clinic. Huge snowstorm. Ex husband was a tech and got up at 4:00 a.m. to shovel out of the driveway as he had to be in by 7:00 a.m.. Inched his way the 10 miles to work. Out of eight techs, two showed up. What did they get for their dedication? A voucher for a free lunch in the cafeteria. Still better than a raffle for a snack pack.
I work at Amazon and this is common they offer you a s****y prize to work harder and faster when we have to move a s**t ton of product and it's funny to see how some people actually get excited and bust their a*s for a fun size candy bar or a tiny bag of chips it's so pathetic my attitude is increase my pay to a living wage and maybe then I'll put in some effort otherwise you get the bare minimum I do exactly what is required and nothing more
Amazon is one of the worst places to work. What they do should to their workers should be illegal.
My Car Exploded On My Way To Work
I thought anti-Putin people usually fall out of the windows and balconies.
Load More Replies...Finding a bomb in your car is the second worst thing that can happen :(
Since no one asked yet...... what is the worst?
Load More Replies...I'm A Videographer And Today I'm Working At A Women's Conference. As There Are Only Women Here They Converted The Men's Bathroom Into A Second Women's Bathroom
The only problem is that there is one guy here. Me. And I really need to pee.
No, take down those signs, use the toilet and DON'T put the signs back up. Perhaps not a legal requirement where this was (USA?) but in Britain places are required to have facilities for both sexes. Possibly more in the near future.
Load More Replies...Okay. I’m going to say it. I’m a woman. And this infuriates me. If women are going to call for gender equality in all things, we DO NOT get to do things like this “just because” it’s a women’s conference. You don’t get to cry about exclusion if you create exclusion going the other way. Use the actual women’s restroom. Wait in line if there’s a line. Be a big girl. If you absolutely have to go or you’ll shite yourself, run into the men’s restroom, but don’t be so unbelievably entitled as to “claim” it as a second women’s restroom. Going to say “well, there were ONLY women there”? If you’d get offended hearing about men making sexist jokes in a group of only other men, then you don’t get to say that.
How about : both are very sexist but one is definitely worse than the other?
Load More Replies...Surely they have the disabled unisex toilet you can use?! If it's a conference centre they should have at least 1 disabled toilet?!
often the disabled toilet is inside the big bathrooms, and it's just one stall. that seems to be the case here :(
Load More Replies...Just knock and go in - I don't assume somebody is dancing around naked in there...
I'm more caught up on whoever decided they needed to print out four signs for a single door
Had A Wardrobe Malfunction While At Work (Retail), Had To Improvise A Solution
Hopefully you didn't buy those pants where you work. I'd be having a word with someone
My Coworker Put Straight Printer Ink In One Of My Gloves At Work. This Will Take A Week Or Two Minimum To Come Off
Coworker at a tattoo shop I worked at coated the inside of a glove in stencil. The purple ink the stencils are made from. Guy wore that glove for 30 plus minutes doing a tattoo and his whole hand was covered. He had a purple tinge for a week but his nails stayed purple. Took a while to grow out the purple on his nails. Months. That “prank” was no longer allowed by mgmt.
Oh and his birthday was that week and the guy who did the prank gave him a dvd of the movie abyss as a present. Main characters hand is blue in that movie from sticking his hand in a toilet 😋
Load More Replies...Complaining About A Place That Makes Donuts Smell Like Donuts. Has To Be The Work Of A Karen
Why are those idiots taken seriously? You don't like the smell, then walk away and MYOB.
Complaining? I would pay extra to any business that smells like a donut when I walk inside
Some day people will discover that they can just ignore the whining of others and just go about their business.
I would love it if my place smelled like donuts! Of course, I'd be disappointed if I couldn't find them!
Take a nice sh!t in there, then it won't smell like doughnuts anymore.
That's as bad as the idiots that move to the country and then complain about the smell of livestock.
I wish people would stop using the word Karen's. Unless it's okay to use the word Muhammad's, Latifa's, or Jose's. Just saying...
This Happened On My First Day On The Job
1. Damn, that's a helluva mess to clean up but 2. That's a helluva lot of sketti being thrown away. : (
Paint Disaster At Home Depot
I once worked at a warehouse of a paint manufacturer, when one of the forklifts drove into one of those tall pallet racks (or whatever they're called). What and unimaginable mess that was, paint everywhere lol
How do you clean up that much paint? Seriously, I'm curious.
Load More Replies...When The Boss Thinks He's A Comedian
Oh, that just made me cringe. that's what you get from your best mate, not your boss! geesh.
I'm not a doctor, but I'm just going to say that that does NOT look good.
My Work Doesn’t Allow You To Use A Toilet As A Toilet
Sorry, but if I get a 10 second warning (I have IBS) it's going to be in these toilets or on the floor.
Can you imagine being so arrogant as to think you can tell your coworkers which toilet they can s**t in?
We sort-of have this situation where I work. The problem isn't smell related though. The building was built before adoption of the ADA, and as-designed there were no handicapped accessible restrooms. During a later remodel, they added one. Unfortunately, the drain in that new bathroom doesn't quite have enough pitch between the toilet and the main drain for the building, so it can get clogged easily. The unwritten rule is "if the option exists, use the other bathroom first."
Load More Replies...How dare a "Lady" make a smell. Ya'll need to read Everyone Poops by Tarō Gomi
Oh man I would deliberately blow this bathroom up and then contact OSHA for this violation; " OSHA requires employers to provide all workers with sanitary and immediately-available toilet facilities (restrooms)." - straight from their website so banning bowel movements violates the "immediately available" portion of that sentence.
I Came Into Work Today To Find One Of Our Office Shelves Collapsed
Yay crayons! Just sit on the floor and start coloring, the mess will go away hopefully :)
So I Was Heading To A Job Interview And Accidentally Spilled Coffee All Over Me Just Before Interview. Not The Best First Impression I Suppose
Just say you're so excited to work there that you couldn't contain yourself
Depends on the job. Other than my 1st ever interview in my job aged 16, every other time I've worn jeans. But it's a fairly specialised job that I do and they're interested in me as a person and what I can do, not what I wear
Load More Replies...Nothing, I turned up for a job interview as Head Chef in a halfway decent hotel in the UK Home counties having landed in country 4 hours earlier off a 12 hour flight, plus I'd had a bit of a party with some of the other guys and girls who'd left the cruise ship we'd been working on, so wasn't in the best shape - in fact I was definitely still drunk . Was a bit disheveilled but once I'd explained, and was given strong coffee, the owner had a bit of a laugh and offered me the job anyway as my reputation was vouched for by quite a few of his staff and customers. Loved that place and stayed for 5 years ....
Did the same on a white shirt, still was hired. There are some people out there who still understand and have some empathy.
Coworker Opened Pressurized Milk Line, Blew His Hat And Hairnet Off
Seen that one before, only it was wine. Dude walked away looking like a smurf.
I think most people who work in food service know about ketchup - I once exploded a ketchup bottle on myself in front of a table of guests. No pics, but yeah, food service.
Coworker Came Out Of Work Yesterday To Find This On His Car
Wow! That happened to me once! The 200 ish year old maple split and crushed my car longwise. Instant convertible.
Considering it's a Toyota 4Runner, it'll probably still run, meaning you can at least part it out while you're battling the insurance company.
Something similar happened in 2006 to my all original 1967 Dodge Monaco......
My brother had a pretty terrible driving record as a teen, after totaling several muscle cars, he got a little compact car. Our grandma had given him a St. Christopher's medal to keep in his glovebox. One day he saw that it had cracked so he brought the medal in the house. The next day a huge tree branch fell on his car and totaled it, although he opted to get it fixed and kept it until he finished college.
Last Year Our Work Holiday Party Was Pushed Back Until The Last Day Of January On Zoom. Guess Who Was The Only One To Dress Up For The Costume Contest?
I was the only one to dress up for a work costume contest one year. I still didn't win. My bully of a boss, who hated me, decided she was going to draw a random name instead, "to make it fair". Stupid bítch. 🙄 It's cool. Karma eventually caught up with her.
Finding This First Thing In The Morning As A Start To Your Work Day
By not cleaning it properly and letting it build up.
Load More Replies...Was Washing A (Very Sharp) Greasy Piping Tip At Work. Slipped Right Onto My Finger Before I Could Stop It
I would go with a band saw to get the finger off...oh, you meant to take the piping tip off
Load More Replies...I've done something similar. It hurts SO bad. I feel for this person.
I call bs on your bs. I also decorated cakes for years, and had a tip similar to this slice right into my hand. It can, and does happen, homie.
Load More Replies...Dumped 17 Buckets Of Drywall Screws (25 Lbs Buckets) From About Fifteen Feet In The Air. I Was Told By My Coworkers It Looked Like Black Hail When It Fell
Oh my god this is my photo!! 😆 since then there has been worse accidents!!
Up Late Working. My Cat Jumped Up On My Desk, Vomited On The Calculator I Need To Use, Then Jumped Back Down
And you’re taking a pic with a cell phone that has a perfectly good calculator app.
I work in finance. NO app in the entire universe can beat a good calculator. You get so used to it you can use without looking at the numbers. It's like an extra hand. I got so attached to the one I used at work I offer to buy it off the company when I left (they let me take it thankfully)!
Load More Replies...Atleast it's one of those cheap calculators and not one of those graphing calcs! Cause if that were me it ain't getting cleaned, into the trash bag you go.
Dropped My Ravioli Taking It Out The Microwave At Work
Steven Hart? (I'm so sorry, but this was him with the unfortunate email adress....)
We Were Supposed To Get Our Annual Raise But This Is What They Gave Us Instead - PB&J Day
And what about diabetics, people with nut allergies, or people on specialized diets, or you know, people who *GASP* don't like PB&J?!
Or people who do like PB&J but prefer real bread, real J and real PB rather than this spray on cr@p?
Load More Replies...Do I want to know why the air duster is on the table among the food?
I wondered that too - if you are unhappy just huff on this?
Load More Replies...I'm curious about the canned air. I guess for the "huffers" who aren't hungry?
What's the air duster for??? Is it so you can huff it and hallucinate that PB&J into filet mignon?
I guess huffing the duster is the only way to put up with this slap in the face
I Just Walked In As A Taco Bell Cleaning Captain. Apparently, An Employee Brought In Her Kids On The Night Shift And Made A Mess
And THIS right here is why she couldn’t find anyone to watch them for her while she was at work.
Lazy bstrd should've cleaned up after them,, I hope you reported this to the store manager. Her brats made the mess she SHOULD have enough decency to clear it up.
I've Been At Work For About 10 Hours And I Haven't Eaten Anything Since I Got There, I Finally Got A Chance To Order Some Fries From A Nearby BBQ Shop... And I Dropped It
Seriously...if I hadn't eaten for about 10 hours, I would pick those fries up and eat them ALL.
If you can, scoop them up, take them back to the restaurant, and explain what happened. I bet they'll be happy to replace them. I've been working in food-service for 25 years, and when something like this happens, and we know it was an honest accident (and not a scam just to get free food), we are always happy to help. Accidents happen. We're all human. We understand.
This Happened When I Tried To Leave My Office
had that happen in our bedroom one morning. my boyfriend tried to put the handle back on and pushed the part that opens the door out. He was on the way to the bathroom... glad I was able to reach a friend who had a key to our appartment.
Load More Replies...You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave....
"Relax. We are programmed to receive."-The Nightman
Load More Replies...Twitter.. you wouldn't have a door and they would have forcefully carried you out.
Load More Replies...Welp, time to live off of whatever you got in that office till someone can get you out
My Friend Went To Get Into His Work Truck This Morning And Found That Someone Drilled A Hole In The Gas Tank And Stole All Of His Gas
Lucky they didn't cause a spark. Where was security?? Are there no cameras the police voukd check. Low down thieving swines
The Bathroom Ceiling At My Work That Nobody Can Fix Till Tuesday
I mean... oh nooo how awful... ireallywanttopopitsobadly
Load More Replies...Ooh. I don't think I could help myself ,, I woukd sooooo want to pop that lol
Well This Happened At Work Last Night
If it happens at home, pour salt over the eggs, makes it easier to clean up
Coworker Left A Couple Shop Rags In The Engine Valley When Doing Intake Gaskets. Now He Gets To Replace The Engine
No. The rags were there to prevent fasteners from potentially dropping down through the pushrod tubes and into the crankcase. They definitely needed to be removed before installing the intake manifold.
Load More Replies...Coworker Was Driving Pizza Sauce To Another Store And Someone Cut Him Off
Note to self - always secure your load, and don't buy a car with a white interior....
Note to self---Never use your own car on company business
Load More Replies...I have to ask.... Why were you driving pizza sauce to another state in an unsecured container?
Right? When I did pizza our sauce came in bags and we'd use 3 per bucket. If anyone needed sauce they got the bags, we never transferred any food like that at all. Usually in boxes in the bags they came in.
Load More Replies...We had that happen once, with a crock pot full of baked beans. While we were following my mom and (ex)stepdad to a family reunion. Forever after, my family called my husband's care the "Baked Bean" lol.
Stop Putting These Stupid Stickers On My Pumps! I Don't Get Paid Enough To Remove Them
Only a trump supporter could have done this? Is ANYONE happy about this..rep or dem????
Load More Replies...How quickly everyone forgot that gas prices spiked back in the early 2000s too. After we invaded Iraq. I remember $6.50 a gallon in Northern California. Again, this is almost 20 years ago. Back when $5 went a lot further. Also do the math. 100/24.8 = about $4 per gallon. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Amazing how powerful he is!! I mean, he has the power to regulate the whole worlds fuel prices!! Just amazing!!{ sarcasm}
And, no, he didn't. Putin did. His war with the Ukraine is one of the many things driving the price of gas.
except gas was going up BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine.....
Load More Replies...It would be much more in EU/UK and is unrelated to any US politician.....
Imagine if US petrol cost what it does in other countries that haven’t gone to war for it? That’s a civil war brewing.
Shoelace Got Caught On Something At Work
At Work Wondering Why I Felt A Draft Down There. My Favorite Jeans Have Given Up The Ghost
I remember the jeans of my childhood. Actually tough and lasted forever. :( Jeans seem so flimsy now.
5th Day Into My New Work At Home Job, And My Chair Breaks Like This
An advantage of work at home job is that at home you should have more than one chair.
please tell me you don't wear shoes inside your home
Load More Replies...A Conveyor Belt Failed
Looks like Toronto Pearson on an average day! That airport is a real sh*tshow!
Starbucks Is Over An Hour Late On The First Red Cup Day. These Are All Abandoned Drinks
Red Cup Day is usually in November… and you get a free reusable red cup on that day. And drinks get abandoned because they’re ordered on the app. The app doesn’t tell you if the store you’re picking up at is soooo busy that it’s gonna be a while. So, people order, then when they realize how long it’s going to take… they don’t pick up their drink. You don’t get charged till you pick it up. So, abandoned drinks!
Load More Replies...It's a shame, but be fair to the patrons, people have places to be. This is the fault of Starbucks. Edit: management/corporate, not employees.
Well yeah, this list is of people having a bad day at work. I don’t think they’re blaming the employees.
Load More Replies...Why are people so slavishly devoted to Starbucks? I'm not a coffee drinker, but I've heard their coffee isn't even that great and that local roasters are better. I'm just against large corporations I guess and prefer to support local businesses.
Coworker Accidentally Breaks 40+ Plates
When I was 16yo, I worked a full summer at the kitchen of a hotel restaurant. During all that time, I didn't break a single glass. On my last day, I did like in the image.
At least it didn't land on a make table or an ice well. Broken glass in the ice well is the worst.
The Button Of My Trousers Fell In Toilet, While At Work
I had diarrhea at work. I had pulled off my glasses because I was sweating so bad. My glasses fell in the toilet before flushing. You can pick up a measly button from the toilet.
Getting Dressed In The Dark Only To Look Down Upon Getting To Work
How often do others look at your shoes? Even so, just say "I felt like being a little different today"
I look at people's shoes a lot. It's easier than looking in their eyes. If I'm feeling confident I'll watch their lips and if I'm feeling really confident I'll look at their forehead
Load More Replies...Have had several senior moments where I've rocked up to work in my slippers ... roll on retirement eh ?
Normally it’s Oxford not brogues .. but you my dear took it up a notch .
Made An Enemy On My First Day Of Work
In California, lunch breaks MUST be taken no later than the end of the fifth hour of work. The person who started at 7 MUST take lunch no later than 12, regardless of "seniority privilege".
I live in Cali too. Employers have to pay you OT if you don’t take your break before the 5-hour mark. I got written up a few times when customers kept me over my 5-hour mark or if my department manager took her break before mine and I couldn’t leave the department unattended. Maybe OP lives in a place where this isn’t the case, though.
Load More Replies..."Seniority" should mame sure everyone else is taken care of first, not the other way around.
I don’t understand the problem, I just ignore stupid texts. If they say anything, then just ’ummm didnt notice’ Especially if on my private phone!
These are the kind of people that should be put on the Cast Away island and just left there … if I had my way though that island would get pretty crowded pretty quickly.
Unless you need that job really, really badly, this is the time to tell your arsehole of a manager to naff off and find something else, then advertise the fact that he / she is an arsehole to anyone else who even tries for a job at that establishment.
A New Vet Clinic Opened In My Town And Today His Parrot Escaped And He Tried To Bribe Her Down For 40+ Minutes
Something like that happened in London, where parrot flew on some roof and stayed there for 3 days. So they callet firemen, and when they climbed on the roof, parrot told them to f**k off and flew away.
Came Into Work To Find That Someone Had Broken Into The Pizza Hut I Work At Last Night
Burglarize a Pizza Hut to steal lots of dough? Seriously, though, what the neck is there to steal? Is that literally the only store in town?!
no way, i didn't know that someone broke in!! what were they looking for? pineapple?
I’m Never Pooping At My Job Ever Again
So this person stopped their pooping and whipped out their camera to memorialize this event?
My Work Only Has Small Gloves
I HATE THAT! I'm an extra large and I can barely squeeze into a large.
I’m fortunate that I’m female and have small hands; I can get into a size small glove. When my dad was still alive (he died last year), my boyfriend and I would wear gloves whenever it was my turn to take care of my dad. Boyfriend would try to put on the size large gloves and rip right through them :( It sucks! There should be more options - not everyone is a “standard hand size”.
Load More Replies...I have very large hands, and I worked for a while in a nursing home, and, taking care of 20 or so residents, 4 times per shift, that's 80 pairs of gloves a shift. The owner was bothered by having to order so many gloves just for me, tried to make me reuse gloves by going in and washing my hands with the gloves on between residents. The Nurse on my shift called her on it, telling her that if the State Nursing Board heard of it, doom would descend on the place. Since owner need RN more than the RN needed owner (shortage of RNs in town), I got all the gloves I needed after that.
My work only had large, my hands are xs, very floppy finger ends, can't pick up anything small or thin, annoying
Usually it's the opposite problem. I have very small hand and all we get is medium or large gloves. Thankfully I only need them in the kitchen now, rather than for wiping baby's bums!
When You Take The Wrong Leftovers Container To Work And All You Have For Lunch Is Baked Beans
The question is if his coworkers could work with the aftermath.
Load More Replies...This is not as bad as the person who tossed their lunch out and got the bag with the kitty litter scooping instead
My husband's co-worker reused butter tubs for leftovers. One day at lunch he opened one to find, you guessed it, butter!
2-Hour-Old Brand New Off The Shelf Red Wing Boots Disintegrated. Cost My Friend A Day Of Work
How does that even happen in 2h? Stepped into somme toxic liquid or what?
That would be my guess. A lot of nasty solvents in the petrochemical industry.
Load More Replies...Discussion on original post seems to suggest this is down to the bit company using substandard material for the soles which are not as resistant to heat / chemicals as they should be
That looks like asphalt on the soles. If it is, your friend is INSANE. You don't stand on the hot tar/binder when you are raking it.
This looks like the solvent used on the toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I wouldn't try to blame Red Wing for your friend's decision to stand in something that can do that in two hours time. Does he wash his hands in the same stuff before going to lunch too?
Red wing has a lifetime warranty on all their shoes. Just take them back.
The Sink At My Work Randomly Exploded And Almost Killed One Of My Coworkers
Doesn't look as though it's some coworker putting homemade explosives on the sink as a practical joke. Those things leave big black splodges.
School Has A Serious Leaking Problem, My Teacher Lives In The Fear That The Plastic Will Break And Spill On Her
Ugh, I remember at my school the brand new performing arts centre had a massive mould and leaking problem within a few months of opening. Mind you, we missed about a week of school because of flooding, but for a year, I'd have to dodge buckets in the hallway and there was plastic wrap on the ceilings sealing in the black mould... fun.
Did anyone realise that the ‘w’ in ‘news’ in that photo is actually an upside down M?
My Coworker Came Out Of The Back Room Saying "Hey I Made A Dumb Mistake"
pliers, some gauze (for blood), then antibiotic ointment, and a bandage. Get back to work!
Eh, pull it out and use a bandage. Desinfect if possible, otherwise at least squeeze out some more blood before. Those things do not much harm. And, of course back to work, it's basically an advanced paper cut.
Load More Replies...as an engineer, ive had that happen to me many times. the very definition of pain.
I did the same thing to my thumb once, while putting in a new stack of staples. Then I promptly turned around ... and did it again.
Drove To Work Only To Discover My Suit Was Dead. Drove Back To Change
Had a co-worker who kept having to go home because he ripped his pants. I threatened to buy him a track suit and keep it at work, just in case.
My Work Giving Us Now 2-Day-Old Hotdogs Instead Of Bonus Pay For Working 4th Of July And 4th Of July Weekend
Food poisoning, might be worth the days off. Worse than food poisoning? Let's roll the dice. Either way, I'm complaining. It's up to the company to decide quickly what I'll complain about. Also either way, it'll be done publicly.
Time to look for a new job. ALL of you. Bonus points if all of you quit at the same day.
This Just Happened
It's difficult to judge the angle, but if he released his 5th wheel and just pulled forward that would remove any interference between truck and train.
Load More Replies...I hope he called the disdpatcher. Supposed to be a phone number at every crossing, with a location code.
My Coworker Dropped A Pallet Of Eggs, And I Got Assigned To Go Trough Every Single Egg Box And Inspect Every Single Egg To Ensure They're Not Broken
Seems to be in Germany... typical job to put the apprentice on (we've all been there, one way or the other 😆)
I have personally volunteered for dumb jobs like this because it got me away from people. I'd enjoy this. Possibly messy though.
Correct, I am paid for for time, if my boss wants me to sort out eggs, I am fine with that!
Load More Replies...Got This Wonderful Error 10 Minutes Before Starting My New Remote Job
I Work At A School. On My Lunch, A Parent Told Me That A Pine Cone Had Fallen From A Tree And Shattered Someone’s Windshield. That Someone Is Me
I have one I bought at a fair a few years ago. Thing is heavy!
Load More Replies...For a few seconds I thought this was a swimming pool. Time to go to bed.
Someone Incorrectly Assembled The Shelves At The Store I Work In, And Now I'm Lost In The Sauce
Someone in Tesco was putting things on the top shelf of the aisle next to the one I was in. I felt the overwhelming need to move. 5 seconds later all the jars on the top shelf on my side fell to the floor. I called out "You missed me, try again". Smashed jam jars right where I had been standing.
Wow, I haven't seen that shelf system in ages! It's very wobbly and s****y. But it was cheap.
Hell Of A Way To Start Off My Graveyard Shift Last Night
I think it's blocking the upper lid, that closes, when you open the drawer
Load More Replies...Amazon Driver Left This Big Tote With Our Packages In It On Our Porch
I have done that. I leave it if you have a lot of packages. It's a so you don't have to pick a bunch of packages up off the ground.
Coworkers Make Each Other Valentine's Day Cards And I’m The Only One In My 12-Person Office That Didn’t Have One Made For Them. Some People Even Have Multiple… Awkward
We had a cork board at work where employees could leave “compliments”/happy note cards about their fellow co-workers. Terrible idea for morale. There are employees who choose not to socialize, or cannot due to anxiety, shyness, or introverted nature, and it hurts them as other employees may see them as unfriendly when they aren’t. The people who don’t socialize/act friendly will never get compliment cards (or Valentines etc) and that sucks. IMO a stupid and unfair system as not everyone is the same levels of energy, friendliness, socialization, etc.
I think Valentine's day cards are somewhat private and don't belong in the work environment...
This happened to me in kindergarten. Ruined Valentines day for me until my girlfriend (now wife) told me to get over it. It had been 20+ years, so she was right. But it's still a bad memory for me.
We had once something similar at school. Once. Fortunately teacher get the memo and didn't try it next year.
we had something like that in my art class. People wrote to the anonymous person what they liked about their art. In all the classes... Let's say I'm a good artist. I got 14 letters and most people didn't get any. It was so awkward
Load More Replies...I worked in a school. One day there was a container of "happy notes" in the lounge written by students to encourage staff. Pull a note off the top and it said something like, "whoever you are, I hope you have a bad day." Genius kid put his real name and he was one of mine. We had a nice conversation. Such an a-hole kid!
Trying To Finish Up A Last Minute Job. Don’t Forget To Latch Your Screw Boxes People
Someone Had A Bad Day At Work
At least, from the looks of it, it wasn't entirely bad...just a semi-bad day (I'm sorry, even I'm ashamed of me for that one)
My Boss's Dog, Which Doesn't Belong At Work To Begin With, Tore Up My Mango Plant, That I Grew From A Mango I Had Eaten
Boss wasn't present for this, so I texted him to let him know, and all he had to say was "How much do I owe you?"
What was the boss supposed to say? Couldn’t the employee just find out how much it would cost to replace the plant at that approximate size? Was there some emotional attachment because it grew from a mango they ate? I don’t understand the problem here.
The problem was the boss didn't think to apologize for his dog's destruction of someone else's property.
Load More Replies...Dogs will be dogs, and the boss offers to fix the mistake there, so why is it an issue?
The dog was not supervised - this time it was the innocent mango plant, next time it might be a coworker...
Load More Replies...My Boss Screwed The Only Window At Our Office Shut, So Now It’s Impossible To Get Fresh Air. I’m Boiling At Work
Looks like a door alarm at the top, one that signals when separated but won't do anything if the the window is broken. This one might be on building security not the boss.
Had A Pen In My Pocket At Work, Looked Down To This
Started My Birthday Out By Spilling Two Gallons Of Unblended Soup Inside A Refrigerator Ten Minutes Into My Shift
My B-Day's usually have things like this occur as well. Why I don't like my B-day, part 1- google.
Can i just say, why were you at work on your birthday? take a day off, enjoy yourself!
60-Liter Oil Canister Exploded, At The Right Is A Freshly Painted Truck
It's a garbage truck, right? It was going to look like that sooner or later.
Broke My Finger At Work, Got Fired After The Drug Test. All At The End Of A 12-Hour Night Shift
Has anybody noticed that the majority of people being drug tested tend to be factory workers? None of the upper class people are subject to this. Congress, who passed this legislation, is exempt, also people like judges, CEOs, etc. I got in trouble with my company after being sent for a drug test after injuring my finger. When I got back, I told HR "I'll put my p**s up against management's any day." I got away with that because I was in a good union.
People in factories could suffer injury or die if their reflexes are impaired by drugs. On the other hand, look at the upper management. Do you really think their work would be WORSE if they were on drugs?
Load More Replies.........think the failed drug test is on you, not the company. No sympathy here
The failed drug test is likely due to the painkillers they were given for the injury!
Load More Replies...I think something that needs to be amended or done away with is weed. With it now being legal, that stuff stays in your system without you still being under the effects- like, what if someone doesn't like to drink alcohol, but takes a THC gummy for sleep/ pain relief. Alcohol will get out of your system by work time but that gummy will take days if not weeks to get out of your system, and you don't feel any effects after a few hours with them.
Every job I ever had if you had an accident at work you automatically have to be drug tested
Is everyone in the comments ignoring the sequence of events here? 12 hour shift. (probably too tired to do job well) Work injury. Sent to aid station. Given painkillers. Returns to work and immediately given drug test. Fails due to painkillers in system given due to work injury. (so, basically fired for doing job.) Make more sense, now?
Rats Ate Their Way Into Our Work Fridge Over The Weekend
My Wife’s Coworker’s Phone Caught On Fire While Teaching
My Manager Made This Mess And Made Me Pick It Up. Meanwhile, She Was Sitting On A Counter Facetiming Someone And Blasting Music
I thought that looked like Little Caesers flooring! Also, I want to spank that dough for old times sake!
I would've trued to secretly film her and send it to the boss. Lazy cow
My Shirts For Work Finally Came In… Spelled Wrong. My Name Is Carter
Twenty years ago I would have had a funny suggestion where it could have been made, but I think today it would be politically incorrect.
We used to have cards printed with our name, role and contact number on it - standard format but we could add a few things. My boss 'redesigned' mine, and managed to mis spell my name. Then refused to have them reprinted because it was too expensive. Never gave out a single card....
Some Jerks Threw An Entire Jar Of Queso On The Menu Board At My Work And I Had To Scrape It Off With A Chisel
Someone Tried On All These Shoes And Left Them On The Floor
You win the dad joke competition- have a *bah dum tsh* :)
Load More Replies...When I got my first big motorbike I bought leathers to go with it. I am not the shape they make leather bike jackets for. The assistant in the shop left a pile of leathers about 5 times this pile's size as I tried on everything with 54 inch chest in the store. The bib and braces were for a 54 inch beer gut, very handy in the winter as I could fit a hot water bottle in them. Ended up with a blouson style jacket, fitted at my waist, extra folds of material down the back (so I could move me shoulders and arms) and loads of room in front to carry excess shopping (plants and the occasional cushion). My usual clothing size...not too small. Also got trapped in a helmet when the assistant closed the latch on the strap, we had to read the instructions to find out how to release it. We were both in fits of giggles after seeing me in the first "skinny arms and shoulders" jacket that I got stuck in. Over a decade later he was in a different bike shop and still remembered me and "the pile"
My Tooth Crown Fell Out While I Was Taking A Call At Work
At least you didn't swallow it; that's a completely different ball game.
He could have clenched his teeth while on the call and that was the final bit of unbalanced pressure needed for its cement to fail.
Load More Replies...My Lunch For 12-Hour Shift
The Order My Manager Made Me Make After I Clocked Out. I Missed My Bus
If I had clocked out, then it's on the manager. Unless he wanted me to clock back in and unless he was providing my transportation home. That was on him
That is absolutely illegal. A workplace can get fined for allowing someone to work off the clock.
work as a cleaner. once i was finished 5 minutes late. I already had my jacket on, when someone came running "OMG you're still there! someone threw up in the restaurant and no one wants to clean it!" He looked at me with puppy eyes, i took a deep sigh, came with him and found the mess and one very embarrased guest. I first told her not to worry about it, then i cleaned it up so quick and well (i was so pissed off they didnt do it themself) with a whole crowd of amazed onlookers. Two weeks later i found a 150 euro christmas bonus gift card for a big shopping center on my cleaningcart. I was told that was the first time the cleaner got one. I think i impressed the right persons :-D
I've been asked if i can stay to make an order really quickly, but never after I'd clocked out
"sorry, I've already clocked out and I'm sure you're perfectly capable... Bye"
Someone Ate My Food At Work So I Put It In The Middle Of The Lunch Room Table And Wrote In 3 Languages To Send My Message
Might have been a different country that uses a $ sign. There's over 20
Load More Replies...My Bike Got Stolen While I Was At Work
Watch the lock picking lawyer on YouTube. He should have good recommendations. It won't get your bike back though.
I Baked A Cake For My Work Colleagues For My Birthday, And Nobody Took Any
That's my plan. I bring something I like, then when there's all or most left over, I take it home and enjoy it. I get credit for bringing something, and I get a treat.
Load More Replies...The opposite happened to me, I brought in a cake and didn't get a single piece of it.
What Happened On Your Worst Day In Trucking?
On Today's Episode Of Why I Wanna Quit My Job
Ffs, just buy a pint of ice cream, rather than telling everyone just how much you, "love coffee".
"Edward" - why don't you just freebase High Fructose Corn Syrup?
of course it was an online order. I work at a pizza place, and online order are always the weirdest to make because people just click buttons randomly. I had to make an 8 inch pizza and somehow stack 10 toppings on it. the crust was overflowing and it didn't get cooked correctly because the heat distribution was wrong. there was more toppings than crust. online orders are so weird
If it's Starbucks, they are trying to cover the taste of the coffee. Only had one from there, never going to buy another. Foul, burnt, bitter brew
Just a few years on that diet and the problem will solve itself naturally...
Tell me you're a pretentious pansy without telling me you're a pretentious pansy.
Day 3 Of Starting My New Job, I Managed To Slice My Hand Open With A Box Cutter Somehow
Today At Work, A Coworker Crashed A Trolley Full Of Plates Needed For A Function
When A Coworker Forgets To Deal With Pizza Dough He Made
The Office Provided My Favorite Expensive Mexican Food For Lunch. I Dumped It All Over Myself
I once worked in a call center where the head of the department would often provide a special lunch for us. We could also eat at our desks. One time when they bought pizza and wings, my manager, who had desk behind me, sat down with his food...and immediately spilled it all over his keyboard. I felt so bad for him, but I was glad it wasn't me!
It Was My Girlfriend's Limited Edition "Starlight" Flavor Coke
Limited edition - coloured red with a flavour ‘inspired by space’. According to Wikipedia, ‘Many have described the taste as similar to that of fruit, vanilla or cotton candy. Junk food review site Candy Hunting stated it "tastes like strawberry, marshmallow, and/or cotton candy".[7] Aly Walansky of Food Network wrote it tastes "kind of like minty cotton candy sprinkled with vanilla".[8]’
Load More Replies...i am sorry to tell you guys, but the amount of sugar the states consum is not healthy at all.
Manager Glued The Volume Button On The Phone So We Can’t Change It
I can understand that. Some people won't answer the phone and turn the ring volume down so they don't have to listen to it.
I use this exact same phone at my work and I use the volume button all the time. I speak with patients and sometimes they are softly spoken, so I need to turn up the volume to hear them. What kind of manager does this? My manager would never dream of doing this.
why does everyone here in the comments have such great managerssssss
Load More Replies...Here's My Night Shift Dinner For Work At 2 AM. I Was Hungry, But I Guess The Floor Was Hungrier. 5 Second Rule?
How I Found My Bike When Leaving Work Today (I Only Have One U-Lock)
This is a theft tactic, They lock your locked bike counting on you just leaving there, the thief is hoping to wait it out and come back at 2 am when the victim and no one else is around, cut your lock and take the bike.
My Coworker Waited Weeks For A Used Transmission For A Hybrid Tahoe. It Finally Showed Up And He Tipped It Up And Water Ran Out Of It For A Solid 60 Seconds
It needs the transmission is no good. He still needs a transmission for a Tahoe
Load More Replies...That doesn't mean it's bad. Drain it, change the filter, install it, fill it with tranny fluid, run it for a little bit, drain it, refill. Good to go.
Dropped My Pocket Knife At Work And The Grate Is Welded And Bolted Down
That Person Must Be Having A Very Bad Day
My Coworker’s Breakfast Today
Not really. That shít soaks right through a paper towel, and it's super thick and sticky. If you leave it for even a minute (like if you're at the office and walk away and come back), and it cools *at all*, it will weld that paper towel to the glass plate underneath like glue. You won't be able to pull it off without shredding it, and leaving bits behind. It'll take hot water and a scraper to get it all off. Then you still have to scrub the plate. And even if you get it right away, it's so sticky that it'll still take effort. Oatmeal is one of the worst things to spill in a microwave, IMO. Ask me how I know (dàmn kids lol).
Load More Replies...Always use a paper plate when nuculating foods that tend to boil over. 1) easy cleanup, 2) can still eat the spillover.
A lesson I've learned from rather a lot of sad person experience. Plates go under things that will boil over, and a vented lid/cover over anything that's bound to spatter. Unfortunately, when I worked at a convenience store with a microwave, zero customers could be bothered with that level of decency, and "Chef Mike" had to be cleaned about every two hours -_-
Load More Replies...I Got My Box Filled With Ketchup At Work Today
Thankfully still inside the packets; This prank could've gone to a much worse place
Lol no it's not. The ketchup packets are unopened, and can still be used. Just throw them in the breakroom fridge, and/or have everyone take some home. My God, lol. Chill out.
Load More Replies...Wandalutz is on a downvote and negative reply rampage, petition to get them banned starts here. The reasoning for this is what is below me and what they did to Zara the Squid
Load More Replies...Nah, we've had a handful of these, not new, they're just less common
Load More Replies...I found the EXACT SAME pics in the same order on the fun post. Who got it first?
The person who was a cart returner at Wal-Mart. Was complaining that people were not returning their carts? I... Well.... If?.... umm...? Forget it. If I explain it to them, I would be doing the job of learning for them. If this is not enough information for sometime in that type of situation; life is going to continue to be a abundance of differing disappointing situations. Puppies can bring happiness. Get yourself a puppy. . . DO NOT get a puppy. My apologies. They are only going to last you about 1 year each. . . Bonzi Tree
Wandalutz is on a downvote and negative reply rampage, petition to get them banned starts here. The reasoning for this is what is below me and what they did to Zara the Squid
Load More Replies...Nah, we've had a handful of these, not new, they're just less common
Load More Replies...I found the EXACT SAME pics in the same order on the fun post. Who got it first?
The person who was a cart returner at Wal-Mart. Was complaining that people were not returning their carts? I... Well.... If?.... umm...? Forget it. If I explain it to them, I would be doing the job of learning for them. If this is not enough information for sometime in that type of situation; life is going to continue to be a abundance of differing disappointing situations. Puppies can bring happiness. Get yourself a puppy. . . DO NOT get a puppy. My apologies. They are only going to last you about 1 year each. . . Bonzi Tree
