chuckywang
Lifer
You have GOT to be kidding me.
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what's the stupidest thing you've seen someone do at work?
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You have GOT to be kidding me.
call center. Guy gets plastered outside of work and returns to work when everyone is gone for the night. He rummages through the fridges and eats multiple coworkers food and then passes out at his desk.
Same guy I think. Quits or is fired; he remembers some customer logins. Goes online and creates a support case like the following.
"Please help me, I can't find the database! They told me it was on the server, but the only thing on the server is a cup of coffee and I put that there. Help, I lied on my resume and don't want to be fired!"
Same guy I think. Quits or is fired; he remembers some customer logins. Goes online and creates a support case like the following.
"Please help me, I can't find the database! They told me it was on the server, but the only thing on the server is a cup of coffee and I put that there. Help, I lied on my resume and don't want to be fired!"
Sphexi
Diamond Member
The place I'm at now, we have a shared Exchange in-box for support issues, we all can read/delete/flag items in it. Since we're a small company, we don't have fancy software for this, so when an item comes in one of us flags it a certain color, then works it. A guy that was there earlier in 2008 but quit to go hang out in Mexico for 3 months came back, and was re-hired (against the recommendations of some of the managers). Almost immediately a few of us noticed things being flagged our color, as if we were going to work them, without us doing it. Emails mysteriously appeared in our folders as if we had done them, things like that. We figured it was him doing it, but there's no way to really prove it without watching him in the act. My manager even chewed me out one day for not doing something that was in my folder, since then I keep all items I work in a private folder only I have access to (and management).
One day everything in the inbox got flagged for me, I cleared the flags, they came back again. I called my manager over and he watched it happen, then he quietly walked to behind the other guy's desk and watched him do it. When he asked what he was doing, he said he was just messing around and playing a joke. Since then they've been keeping a really close eye on him, and he's constantly wandering around, chatting with people and not working, bothering the developers (who work based on tickets, and are paid pretty well, so it's best not to waste half an hour of their time with random stories).
Lucky for him he decided to quit and move to another town with his girlfriend, because I think he was about a week away from getting fired. Before he was hired back everybody in the office worked well together, and we were all really productive. Since he came back though, he's formed this little clique of himself and one or two others, all of whom have had their productivity go way down. I can't wait for him to leave honestly, because it means we get a new employee (who will likely be happy to have a good job and will work hard), and we can go back to having fun in the office without him messing it up.
One day everything in the inbox got flagged for me, I cleared the flags, they came back again. I called my manager over and he watched it happen, then he quietly walked to behind the other guy's desk and watched him do it. When he asked what he was doing, he said he was just messing around and playing a joke. Since then they've been keeping a really close eye on him, and he's constantly wandering around, chatting with people and not working, bothering the developers (who work based on tickets, and are paid pretty well, so it's best not to waste half an hour of their time with random stories).
Lucky for him he decided to quit and move to another town with his girlfriend, because I think he was about a week away from getting fired. Before he was hired back everybody in the office worked well together, and we were all really productive. Since he came back though, he's formed this little clique of himself and one or two others, all of whom have had their productivity go way down. I can't wait for him to leave honestly, because it means we get a new employee (who will likely be happy to have a good job and will work hard), and we can go back to having fun in the office without him messing it up.
Bill Brasky
Diamond Member
I work in a lab, and this new chick was trying to use good sterile technique by flamming the mouths of all the bottles she used. Apparently one liquid was an ethanol base and a nice size fireball shot out. My coworker muttered "Boom goes the dynamite" and we all lost it.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
LMAO that is hilarious.
This was not so much stupid as it was funny:
I work at a help desk, the level 2's work closely with us (we're considered the same job, as we sometimes rotate). One of the level 2's who often goes to this one school for tech support issues had this teacher hitting on him. We found it funny and all, he was interested so tried to find out who and such. It turned out she was like 10 years older so he was grossed out and avoided talking about it and let it go from there. We'd always joke about it and such.
One quiet day we send a Level 2 ticket that said "Teacher at [school] needs tapping". We had approached our boss before hand about the joke since he has access to delete tickets so we could have him delete it once the joke is over so it does not stay there and affect reporting. He found it hilarious and was ok with it.
Now HIS boss called him up about a different issue and happened to be looking at the tickets and saw that and was like "uhh whats that?" and our boss explained it was just a joke. Now his boss thought it was hilarious and called HIS boss (we're getting quite high in the corporate ladder here). Now the higher up boss found it hilarious as well. In fact, he called the tech and urged that he does not blow the dead line. 😀
moshquerade
No Lifer
stick themselves with a needle
Finalnight
Golden Member
Look at porn on a customer's computer with a public facing monitor.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
LOL thats bad. I don't even get how some people have the balls to look at porn at work.
When I was working night shift around 5pm-10pm at this data entry job, the supervisor made everyone stop working and brought in her pyramid scheme partners to give a speech about purchasing health insurance or some crap. The same supervisor tried recruiting employees to be representatives later.. Someone actually took a photo of the multilevel marketing presentation and showed the manager lol
Locut0s
Lifer
We had this one women we hired about a year back who almost imediately started to go south. She worked graveyard shift at the store by herself at the time. There is now a bylaw that stipulates that no one is allowed to work allone at convinience stores past 11pm or so. Not long after she started working our daily cash balance started to show up short. First 20 bucks here and there then 40 or 50 and more. Because of the way shifts overlapped at the time and because we didn't have rock solid dedicated till procedures it was hard to nail down the shortage to a specific person. But we had a short list and she was at the top. During this period my manager took a 3 week vacation during which I ran the store. He knew he was leaving me with a potential mess but he'd already planned the trip for some time and there wasn't anything he could do in the store that I couldn't. Anyway during the time he was gone she stole a good $1000 bucks or more. She was also a lousy worker, always had one excuse or another why something wasn't done. I let it be known in no uncertain terms though that I knew that cash was missing and she was a prime suspect. She didn't take that all that well and quit the day before the manager was due back from his trip. The next day cash shortage went from 100 bucks a day to like 2 or 3 either way.
Latter I learned from some frequent customers that she was buddy buddy with all the street people in the neighbourhood and let anyone get away with anything they wanted in the store at night. There was also a suspicion that she was doing drugs at night in the washroom, she was always a little too strung out. We had an audit of the store during the month or so she was working there that was $13,000 short!
Latter I learned from some frequent customers that she was buddy buddy with all the street people in the neighbourhood and let anyone get away with anything they wanted in the store at night. There was also a suspicion that she was doing drugs at night in the washroom, she was always a little too strung out. We had an audit of the store during the month or so she was working there that was $13,000 short!
DefDC
Golden Member
While I was in college, I worked as a landscaper one summer. The reason the job was open, the former employee was supposed to mix some rose food and apply it to the HR manager's award winning rose garden, which is in display in the roundabout in front of the building. He mixed the food in a bucket which was just used for soil sterilizer.
It was literally a sandbox when I took over the job the next summer.
It was literally a sandbox when I took over the job the next summer.
Finalnight
Golden Member
To clarify, it was the customer's porn, and by public facing I mean all the front checkouts and a manager wandering by.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
lmao
Finalnight
Golden Member
It wasn't supposed to, lol. Man, I kinda miss working in the ghetto, we used to get some really good porn stashes come in.
Locut0s
Lifer
We had another kid steal cash from the store a while back. We have an electronic safe that dispenses rolls of coins and bills as needed. The guy would dispense rolls of $5 bills and place it right in his apron. Thing is we have a VERY obvious camera pointed directly at the tills. I mean if your going to steal make it look like something else.
Locut0s
Lifer
Probably a case where everyone knew what was going on or rumoured to be but there was no real proof. People can get away with almost anything but unless they get caught red handed they might continue to have their job for longer than you would think. Especially in a buisness where they are loath to fire anyone as it causes so many headaches.
when I was in high school I had a part time job at a hardware store (Handy Andy). The owner's son worked there as a floor manager, one night after hours he came into the store with his girlfriend while the rest of the crew were putting away stock. He was very high (or maybe drunk) and he was trying to impress his girlfriend by acting like a tough guy and yelling at the crew to do this or that, he eventually made his way over to a forklift one of the workers were using. He kicked the guy out of the seat and proceeded to instruct him on the proper way to use the machine. Long story short he ended up running the forklift into one of the 15 foot lumber shelves which tipped over into the shelf in the next aisle, which in turn tipped into the next shelf and so on and so on.
It was the single greatest thing I have ever seen at work... evar
plus we got to see the owner show up and tear his son a new one
It was the single greatest thing I have ever seen at work... evar
plus we got to see the owner show up and tear his son a new one
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
Place with 8000 people. Procedures exist for everything. We even used to get e-mails about how to properly chuck a wheel. So, we found it humorous to see a security vehicle parked on one of our many hills with the wheel chuck on the wrong side of the wheel. It was funny to us because security is who would be writing you up for messing these things up.
DUMBEST THOUGH:
On top of a 3 story building there was a guy working on the edge of the roof. He had a safety line attached and secured to some object on the roof. The funny thing is that if you attach a safety line to the middle of the roof, then go to the left edge, you have about 60 feet of safety line. And a drop of about 40 feet. 40-60=-20 feet above ground.
OK, one more. Did you know that there is a very high suicide rate among a certain division of the military? I found out when a statistic was added via gun on a ship that was under construction where I work.
DUMBEST THOUGH:
On top of a 3 story building there was a guy working on the edge of the roof. He had a safety line attached and secured to some object on the roof. The funny thing is that if you attach a safety line to the middle of the roof, then go to the left edge, you have about 60 feet of safety line. And a drop of about 40 feet. 40-60=-20 feet above ground.
OK, one more. Did you know that there is a very high suicide rate among a certain division of the military? I found out when a statistic was added via gun on a ship that was under construction where I work.
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