List the nasty things you've seen people at work do.

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Bryophyte

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Originally posted by: teddyv
Summer of my first year of college I worked new house construction as a general laborer/carpenter's assistant with a couple friends. Sounded like a great gig, start at 7am and home by 3pm, easy work and like $18 an hour. Until the afternoon of my first day, when I was asked to start cleaning the basements for final interior work -- and quit to go back to making more money with a bit more effort cutting lawns and being a lifeguard.

Seems construction guys have a bad habit of hating prota-potties, and instead go to the basement, find a clean spot of concrete and proceed to drop it right there on the floor. Then the kicker, they would take of their underwear and use them as TP leaving them on top of the mess. The first basement I went into looked like the spacecraft in Alien (with all the seed pods on the deck) - I just turned around and walked out, and drove to the pool to get my old job back.

:barf;
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
WAY back in the day my ex (ex at that point in time actually) and I worked at a Subway. We scrumped on the food prep table. I wasn't really thinking with the right head at the time, but I had sense enough to ask her to clean it with clorox afterwards.

OK, I think that's the THIRD story I've heard of Subway employees having sex at work. Seriously. One of them was a semi-buddy of mine. The sad part is that I kind of like Subway.:(

im not a subway emplayee but ive banged one in subway after closeing on the food prep table

ive also done it in a DD
 

Engraver

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Originally posted by: BigJ
You haven't lived until you've seen an elderly man unknowingly defecate in the middle of a shopping aisle. Luckily I didn't have to clean that up.

My first job was at a grocery store, and something similar to this happened. A woman (approximately in her 30s) pissed herself while shopping. I hid in the dairy freezer so I wouldn't have to clean it up.


My aunt used to work at the Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. She told me that someone had shit in the sinks in one of the women's restrooms, and then wiped shit all over the mirror.
 

crystal

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Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Someone recently told me about entering the restroom and seeing his boss walk quickly out. When he went to use the urinal, he found semen all over it. Same boss never washes his hands after using the restroom. :barf;

Not necessary means the boss jack off. Likely that someone back out as quickly as the boss and if someone happen to saw him...
 

pyonir

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Originally posted by: crystal
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Someone recently told me about entering the restroom and seeing his boss walk quickly out. When he went to use the urinal, he found semen all over it. Same boss never washes his hands after using the restroom. :barf;

Not necessary means the boss jack off. Likely that someone back out as quickly as the boss and if someone happen to saw him...

What?

English much?
 

oddyager

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Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
i dont know why but pinching one nostril closed and blowing all the snot out the other in the sink always struck me as nasty....

its a shared bathroom and im pretty sure they dont clean up every bit of snot which probably goes flying everywhere......like places other people touch when washing their hands

There's a scumbag in our firm that does that, too. Except he (hope it's not a she) doesn't care about washing his mess so there's his bleeping snot all over the sink.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: Engraver
Originally posted by: BigJ
You haven't lived until you've seen an elderly man unknowingly defecate in the middle of a shopping aisle. Luckily I didn't have to clean that up.

My first job was at a grocery store, and something similar to this happened. A woman (approximately in her 30s) pissed herself while shopping. I hid in the dairy freezer so I wouldn't have to clean it up.

LOL...I used to use that trick when I worked at a grocery store. I'd be walking along and see a nasty mess, knowing that as soon as the manager saw it he would order the first stocker he saw to clean it up I would disappear, usually the dairy cooler...but if that place was overloaded (most of the other guys were wise to this plan) I'd make an unscheduled cart cleanup run to get myself right out of the store.

There was usually this one daft bigmouthed kid that ended up taking the fall. He didn't do much other work at all though so I never felt bad about letting him take a disproportionate amount of hits on that job.
 

rezinn

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Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: Siddhartha
I work in a lab. One guy threw away irreplacable samples because they were not labelled. The guy knew who the samples belonged to. To prove his point, he could have put the samples in a box.

The owner of the samples went to H&R over this.

samples of what and need clarification on to what they were for.

I worked in a lab as a grad student and threw away years worth of published and unpublished research in unlabeled tubes. If you leave and your shit isn't labeled, its worse than useless. Especially when it's in a -80 degree freezer encased in frost. Even if you're still there and don't label, you could get into a lot of trouble using unlabeled junk and it's a bad habit.

We had a genome mapping project that a lot of people worked on. I found out during some maintenance that a temporary student worker was doing about eight hours worth of work in 45 minutes and listening to music the entire time - it turned out he was just copying data files and renaming them to pretend he had analyzed some autoradiographs. Great way to fuck up and slow down a project the government has funded millions of dollars in. His work had to be completely redone and he wasn't rehired for the next semester.

 

Randum

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well, these are some gross things and yes if you are in nursing, you seem to see a lot of really, really gross stuff. but in the office..
clipping fingernails has to be the grossiest for me, and some guys would chew at work but spit in a cup, not a big deal.
the office im at now has one bathroom, it used to be a studio of sorts so everyone uses the same toliet so if you punish it, you are trouble, but when i got there for about 2-3 months, NO SOAP EXISTED so i would go past the kitchen and wash my hands because i cant stand using a public toliet and NOT washing your hands...but grossness aside, NO ONE would do the same!!
but right now the biggest problem would have to be the lack of showering amongst the programmers. I think this one guy, not only smells like hes been sleeping in his clothes like a homeless guy for weeks, but also like to make it look like hes been digging through dirt tunnels before coming into work... his hands are just plain dirty..
ive been thinking about saying something but we'll see.. i'll have more stories time permitting.
 

Randum

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ok again, heres something to ponder:

how is it possible to walk in the bathroom when someone took a crap, and no you dont smell the crap- but you smell the guys body odor....
please explain to me how this works cause its gross. id almost rather have the poo smell over this guys potent BO.

and how can someone take 2-3 15min bathroom breaks every single day...something isnt right
 

nova2

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some employee at a bank was licking their fingers to count money. A Real Smart Thing To Do.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: nova2
some employee at a bank was licking their fingers to count money. A Real Smart Thing To Do.

If you can think of a better way to get your daily dose of cocaine, I'd love to hear it.