Mr Pickles
Diamond Member
People were diving head first when I was a lifeguard back when I was a teen. That's just stupid.
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what's the stupidest thing you've seen someone do at work?
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This is second-hand, but my girlfriend works for a pharmaceutical company (business development, not research) and apparently it gets really boring there - so boring that people fall asleep at their desks and fall out of their chairs.
She says that at least once a month (sometimes once a week), it will be dead quiet and then she will hear a loud THUD followed by some rummaging - it's the sound of someone falling backwards in their chair.
One day a fat lady who sits down the hall from my girlfriend's cubicle did it, and after the noise my girlfriend looks to see what it was and all she sees are the wheels of a leather chair and two fat legs sticking straight up in the air.
She says that at least once a month (sometimes once a week), it will be dead quiet and then she will hear a loud THUD followed by some rummaging - it's the sound of someone falling backwards in their chair.
One day a fat lady who sits down the hall from my girlfriend's cubicle did it, and after the noise my girlfriend looks to see what it was and all she sees are the wheels of a leather chair and two fat legs sticking straight up in the air.
Deviant Grasshopper
Banned
A server setup before I got here has one huge raid-5 array divided into two partitions (OS and data). It was running out of space so I ordered a few more drives to add to the pool. A junior admin took it upon himself to add these two drives to the array about 10 min before production started.
The array failed, and took down the server. Even restoring the backup took like 24 hours. It was a bad day, but our department was going through a lot so I brushed it under the rug.
The array failed, and took down the server. Even restoring the backup took like 24 hours. It was a bad day, but our department was going through a lot so I brushed it under the rug.
SacrosanctFiend
Diamond Member
My former co-worker went off on our boss during her performance interview a week before Christmas. She had received a "performs below expectations" rating and proceeded to yell at my boss how, if she was performing below expectations, he was perforning like a "piece of shit" and had the intelligence of a "retarded cow." My boss, keeping his cool, explained the specific situations which garnered her her rating and she called him a liar and said she was done with the conversation. She was escorted out by security 3 hours later.
Note: My office is right next to my boss's and I could hear her clearly through the wall.
Note: My office is right next to my boss's and I could hear her clearly through the wall.
T
Tim
I don't see/understand the funny in either of your post...
TallBill
Lifer
When I was in Afghanistan a soldier from another unit fired a round into my wall while my driver and I were sleeping. Luckily nobody was hurt.
A similar thing happened to one of my good friends in another part of the country, where a round went through the wall and struck some unlucky bastard in the neck. My buddy rushed in and basically held his wound closed with his hands until medics took over.
A similar thing happened to one of my good friends in another part of the country, where a round went through the wall and struck some unlucky bastard in the neck. My buddy rushed in and basically held his wound closed with his hands until medics took over.
I work in an engineering department, where we used to use drafting boards and architectural scales to make our plans. When we first got Autocad, I once saw my boss hold his architect's scale up to his monitor to try and get the dimension of something in the drawing. I'm sure this is very obvious to anyone familiar with drafting software, but in Autocad, you can zoom in and out on any part of a drawing, at any time, and using a scale on the screen would be like viewing a .pdf file and trying to measure the size on your screen to figure what size paper to use.
Fritzo
Lifer
At my old catering job, we had these huge "pizza" ovens in a row that ended right at the kitchen door. We had them going, and a new guy walked in, then stuck his hand out to lean against the oven and say "What's up?"
In the closest thing I've even seen to a real life Bugs Bunny cartoon, his hand started to sizzle, and the skin melted to the side of the oven....but it was a delayed reaction (I half expected him to say "What's burning?"). He looked at his hand for a few seconds, then started going "AGGGHHHH!!!!!" I thought we were going to have to use a spatula to pry it off, but he went ahead and ripped it off. A perfect scortched skin imprint of his hand was left on the side of the oven.
You know how your skin looks underneath a blister? His whole hand looked like that. Couldn't use his hand and was on pain killers for 6 weeks.
In the closest thing I've even seen to a real life Bugs Bunny cartoon, his hand started to sizzle, and the skin melted to the side of the oven....but it was a delayed reaction (I half expected him to say "What's burning?"). He looked at his hand for a few seconds, then started going "AGGGHHHH!!!!!" I thought we were going to have to use a spatula to pry it off, but he went ahead and ripped it off. A perfect scortched skin imprint of his hand was left on the side of the oven.
You know how your skin looks underneath a blister? His whole hand looked like that. Couldn't use his hand and was on pain killers for 6 weeks.
hanoverphist
Diamond Member
when i used to set up concert stages i was working on the paul mccartney tour at ASU stadium. the road guy in charge of building towers was a crazy-ass aussie that seemingly had a speed problem. as we were building these 90ft towers, we got to about 60ft up and he was running across the top trying to carry 10ft 2X8s under each arm, running on a 2" pipe. if he lost his balance he would drop a plank and keep going to the other side. that plank would drop down the middle where we had crew every 5 or 6 feet to pass steel up to build more levels, and they would all have to swing out on safety lines to avoid getting hit. he was told many times the first day to stop doing that, but he basically said fuck off and did it anyway. i was at the top of the tower with him, so i wasnt really in the danger zone so to speak, but i walked off the tower with the rest of my crew until his boss got him under control. he called us whining pussies the rest of the week lol. thats also the tour stop when linda mccartney found out styrofoam cups in landfills were a bad thing. she decided to yank all our cups, so we had coolers full of gatorade/ water/ lemonade with nothing to drink out of. not normally a huge deal, but in az in summer time is not when i want to be without a way to get a drink. someone on the crew also played a dangerous prank on our crew, replaced all the sunscreen with tanning lotion. we lost 15 guys to severe sunburns.
MrPickins
Diamond Member
On a similar note:
I was a crew chief for a land surveyor laying out a new subdivision using (Leica) RTK GPS equipment (~$40k for the setup).
One day I finished laying out one group of lots and went back at the truck to look at my map. The mobile part of the gps system has a dish on a 2m pole connected to a cpu unit inside a small backpack. I leaned the pole against the truck and put the backpack on the ground while I looked at the map I had laid on the front seat.
Once I realized that I needed to be on the other side of the subdivision, I just hopped in the truck and took off. I knew what had happened as soon as I fell the back tire go over a bump...
The cpu unit was pancaked, cracking both circuit boards inside. Sure I was fired, but I don't feel too bad. The unit was insured.
OutHouse
Lifer
There is a code you have to put into the bathroom to gain access. The code is 12345. I noticed someone try and fail 4 times to gain access to the bathroom while walking by, so I asked if they knew what the password was. They said they knew it was 12345. This is the layout of the keypad:
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2
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The dumbass was typing in 54321 over and over because she "couldn't see the actual numbers". You would think you might try the logical choice and type from the top down.
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The dumbass was typing in 54321 over and over because she "couldn't see the actual numbers". You would think you might try the logical choice and type from the top down.
clamum
Lifer
Nothing too bad off the top of my head. At my current job, one of my co-workers was testing out a SQL query on the production server and it took a long time to execute (millions of records I think, huge tables/database) and didn't add a no-lock on it so it ended up locking the database. He got some angry emails pretty quick AFAIK, haha.
MagnusTheBrewer
IN MEMORIAM
Had a paraffin fire suppression system go off in a restaurant due to a malfunctioning sensor. When the system goes off it automatically cuts the gas and electrical grid. One of the managers decided to reset the electrical system for the kitchen shortly after so the hoods could exhaust the 'smoke.' The hoods sucked up a lot of the powder and exhausted out the roof where, being heavier than air, it settled on the windshields of most of the patrons cars and bonded to the glass. Alarm company paid for kitchen clean up and restaurant paid for detailing customer's cars.
wwswimming
Banned
at one of the defense contractors i worked at, one of the program managers on an EW
(electronic warfare) program had this to say when i pointed out that he was slicing a
week off the agree-upon schedule ... "the schedule is trash."
a week later, he was replaced on that program.
i was in the position of acting as mechanical engineering lead. the Program manager
had a shortage of good news on the EE front and wanted something to offer the
customer in a weekly/daily program meeting.
so he pushed me to ask another mechanical engineer to work OT etc. so that a
finite element analysis (heat & vibration) would be done a week earlier. i explained
that i was reluctant to do this because we had already asked her to jump through
some hoops for our program, and she was on schedule for the current deadline.
anyway, the whole sequency of events gave us something to talk about for our 4 PM
afternoon soda breaks. the "schedule is trash" program manager did not have a big
fan club at the engineer level.
(electronic warfare) program had this to say when i pointed out that he was slicing a
week off the agree-upon schedule ... "the schedule is trash."
a week later, he was replaced on that program.
i was in the position of acting as mechanical engineering lead. the Program manager
had a shortage of good news on the EE front and wanted something to offer the
customer in a weekly/daily program meeting.
so he pushed me to ask another mechanical engineer to work OT etc. so that a
finite element analysis (heat & vibration) would be done a week earlier. i explained
that i was reluctant to do this because we had already asked her to jump through
some hoops for our program, and she was on schedule for the current deadline.
anyway, the whole sequency of events gave us something to talk about for our 4 PM
afternoon soda breaks. the "schedule is trash" program manager did not have a big
fan club at the engineer level.
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
Medical issues? There was a guy like that around where I work (morbidly obese) but you couldn't fire him because that would be (possibly) discrimination.
The guy got gastric by pass surgery and retired. I think management hinted that he needs to resolve these things without saying it.
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