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what's the stupidest thing you've seen someone do at work?

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I've got this coworker who's been on thin ice for awhile (the fact that he was the only one in the department who didn't get a yearly raise should have been a big sign)... attendance issues, generally being bad at his job, etc. everyone pretty much knew that the writing was on the wall.

instead of trying to get better, he just continued to plod along and steadily decline. this past week, he decided to call out sick -- but it wasn't enough just to call out sick, he was actually laughing on the phone while telling his boss he was sick /facepalm... I think my boss must've just snapped, because he fired him on the spot over the phone.

not sure what this retard was thinking... if you know you work in an at-will state and you know your boss hates you, at least pretend to actually be sick.
 
The other day I hear this sawing noise coming from another cubicle. I go over there and the dude is 100% asleep.....I mean snoring up a storm........😕
 
We have an imaging lab that we use for imaging PCs. Its on its own LAN using its own router. We have a cable to connect us to the live network for certain things, Internet access, printers, network shares, etc. But the router for the lab cannot be plugged in at the same time as the live cable, otherwise its DHCP server starts handing out IP addresses to production PCs.

An individual was hired to image PCs during the night to help fill a large order, and he kept plugging the router and the live cable in at the same time. The idiot did it three times, despite the entire setup being explained very thoroughly to him repeatedly.

The third time he did it, I was on call and get a phone call at 0200 from a user who said they couldn't access the Internet or print. After some questioning, he told me his IP was 10.x.x.x, the live network is 172.31.x.x. I nearly cursed on the phone, got a contact number for the user, then called the office and chewed the idiot out on the phone. He was fired a few days later.
 
An old lady got a cell phone from me right before leaving for a trip. She called me from the airport because she couldn't hear on her new phone. I was trying to help her out but she was calling from the cell phone she couldn't hear on.
 
I have a similar co worker. He's on youtube and computer part sites all the time. Thing is, it's one thing to do that when it's really quiet, but at least minimize it when the boss is around.

One time our boss bought us lunch like he will do once and a while or if it's too busy and we have to work through lunch, and there was a few other managers around too that were eating with us. He was STILL on youtube. LOL. Like really, at least make it look like you're being productive. Thing is he's a really nice guy and he DOES work, just not enough. So it would be sad to see him go.
 
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

Too many to list...
 
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

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Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

Too many to list...
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we want a dedicated subforum with your stories.
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Mounted a hammock in my office, what was funny is my boss was more pissed about the huge bolts I put through the walls for the mounting hardware than the hammock. Still remember the boss calling me asking ?Did you put a hammock up in you office, yes I did, ugggg? it was like an Office Space moment. Did not get fired and got a promotion on my following review, but I did have to remove hammock.


Was at Verizon when this black manager was caught taking advantage of this retarded employee by making him suck his dick. After that the retard was nicknamed ?Choclate Milk Man? the manager was fired a year later for other offences.
 
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

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we want a dedicated subforum with your stories.
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That
 
Originally posted by: rpanic

Was at Verizon when this black manager was caught taking advantage of this retarded employee by making him suck his dick. After that the retard was nicknamed ?Choclate Milk Man? the manager was fired a year later for other offences.
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what the fuck?
 
Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

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we want a dedicated subforum with your stories.
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Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

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jesus christ, what was she going to do... eat him?
 
Originally posted by: vshah
Originally posted by: rpanic

Was at Verizon when this black manager was caught taking advantage of this retarded employee by making him suck his dick. After that the retard was nicknamed ?Choclate Milk Man? the manager was fired a year later for other offences.
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what the fuck?
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😕 a year later?
 
Originally posted by: nonameo
Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Paramedic arrived first and gave IM benadryl to an asthma patient.

Man had a pressure cooker blow up on him, arrived to the wife answering the door (with a large tub of butter) saying "I covered him with butter as soon as it happened!", and being quite smitten with her actions. It took a lot of morphine and rubbing to remove all the butter from the poor guy.

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jesus christ, what was she going to do... eat him?
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despite all attempts to tell people of the contrary, some morons cling to the belief that butter is good for burns.
 
I was working at an internship and their sales guy had a habit of coming back from lunch pretty loaded. I had heard the VP chew him out a couple of times, each time getting more and more heated.

One day the sales guy came back from lunch drunk - I mean unable to walk straight drunk. The VP came out of his office, said, "I told you you have had your last warning about drinking."

Sales Guy said, "I know, I know. I wasn't drinking," with a stupid drunk grin. (Think Mr. Gower in It's A Wonderful Life when the bar owner sprays him in the face with seltzer.) The VP hauled off and punched him right in the face. Sales Guy slumped to the floor and laid there for a while, then got up and left, never to be seen again.
 
Had a guy who was on real thin ice...notorious for call offs, damaged a ton of product on a forklift, overall shitty performance...just basically a bad employee he had been through all the discipline procedures and knew his next mistake was his last.

At the time we were required to work mandatory overtime (you don't here that term much nowadays) and the day he was to report to work he leaves a voice mail that he is sick but will bring in a doctors excuse.


He "thought" he hung up his phone and and suddenly you hear the roar of loud music...like he opened a door and you hear him say "WOO!...HANDLED!...some one get me a fvckin beer!"...all this was recorded to voice mail....yeah we got a good laugh out of it and what an idiot he was, but the best part was when he brought in the excuse we asked how he felt and he gives this long BS about how sick he was and he was in bed all weekend blah blah blah...

Then we play the voice mail....and I swear I have NEVER seen the color rush out of someones face so damn fast...yeah, he knew he was busted....he just handed over his employee badge and walked out with his head hung low....never said a word.......we mailed him his final check and that is the last time we ever saw him.
 
Originally posted by: Fayd
despite all attempts to tell people of the contrary, some morons cling to the belief that butter is good for burns.
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Butter is great for burns... It makes the skin much more crispy and flavorful.
 
Heard about this one when I was working there:
40 something guy drops his pants in front of a 20 something girl that works there. He's fired immediately but later on comes back to ask for a letter of recommendation.

A guy puts the wrong kind of fuel in one of those commercial riding lawn mowers almost blowing out the engine. I just looked on John Deere's website to just get an idea of how much they cost and this year's base model is over $60,000.

Both of these associated with a temporary stage set up in a field
-A guy uses a front end loader to try to move some telescoping pillars holding up the stage canopy and twists them so they can no longer extend or retract. I forget the damage figure on that one, but it was tens of thousands of dollars.
-There are baskets of plants / flowers at the front of the stage and rather than using watering cans to put in the water carefully, workers use a hose to spray the area (and all the sound equipment around it)

A guy spilled gasoline all over his pants near some exposed electrical wiring to some sort of pump next to a lake. He asked me what I would have done if his pants started on fire and I told him I would have pushed him into the lake. He told me he'd rather have his legs burned than get into the "gross water". I asked him what he would have done and he said "stop drop and roll". I then asked "where?". We were basically in a high density forest and there was no open space to actually roll around. If he tried it, he would have just been thrashing around in a bunch of dried leaves between trees that were covered in the gasoline he had spilled.

Later that day, this same guy thinks I should climb up ~20 feet to the first branch in a huge willow tree and use a chainsaw to cut off the limb that was damaged in the storm. The method would have been to drive the golf cart next to the tree and put the ladder in the back of it to climb up there. This branch was over the same lake from the previous item on the list. With lack of any sort of safety equipment along with the knowledge that if I did fall into the lake this guy wouldn't be willing to help me, I decided not to do it.

A worker and his friends come by after hours to mess around with some golf carts and manage to totally smash one (blood found in the crash, front end totally destroyed, beer cans found). Worker tries to hide the totaled golf cart in the woods.
There were many golf cart accidents actually... ranging from ejecting passengers to backing up into a stroller containing a baby to hitting parked cars.

Guy throws a log into the back of a pickup truck but it hits squarely in the back of the cab's window smashing it.

Guy tries to lift a boulder to toss into a pile rather than rolling it into the bobcat bucket for the bobcat to move like the other workers are doing, he messes up his back and is out of commission for a couple weeks.

Hmmm... I guess those aren't too great.
 
Originally posted by: rpanic
Mounted a hammock in my office, what was funny is my boss was more pissed about the huge bolts I put through the walls for the mounting hardware than the hammock. Still remember the boss calling me asking ?Did you put a hammock up in you office, yes I did, ugggg? it was like an Office Space moment. Did not get fired and got a promotion on my following review, but I did have to remove hammock.


Was at Verizon when this black manager was caught taking advantage of this retarded employee by making him suck his dick. After that the retard was nicknamed ?Choclate Milk Man? the manager was fired a year later for other offences.
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Wow. This guy had his mentally retarded employee give him head, and the company let him continue working there for a year after that?

And wtf, he had a retarded male suck his dick??
 
When I worked at a call center, one dude was working the late shift so nobody around. His boss walked over to his cube to see how things were going and dude had it whipped out and was whackin it while providing tech support for a customer. He was given the option of quitting or explaining to his next employer why he got fired.
 
Last year I saw a surgeon repair a VSD without venting air from the heart, sent some massive volume of air into circulation and killed the patient.

I also saw an anesthesiologist give an overdose of phenylephrine. 300/240 blood pressure.

Also saw a ~35k centrifuge destroyed by running it unbalanced. Was pretty old though.
 
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