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mjtaylor87
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What is the weirdest thing you have done, happened to you, or have seen at a job?
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I was a 3rd shift waitress for a 24 hour dinner. we had a lady come in that would order two cups of coffee. she would sit at the booth with her cup of coffee and set the other one across from her. then she would set a menu up across from her and would sit there for hours talking to it. holding full conversations that only she could hear the other side of. One night she got in to an argument with the menu, knocked it off the table, and stormed out. She never came back.4
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I worked at McDonald's when I was 16, and some college kids came through the drive through driving in reverse, with a video recorder (they didn't have them on phones back then), ordering ice cream cones.. So, when they received their cones, they tried to flip them upside down and eat them backwards. That didn't work out well with them.. Extreme backwards day.0
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Hmm let's see. I've had a gun, knife and pepper spray pulled on me. A guy once took paper out of a shoe, wiped his butt, sniffed the paper, threw it behind a bench, then repeated it. A lady once offered me sex to let her leave after I caught her shoplifting. Had a shoplifter attack me and yell rape as I was handcuffing her. I caught a guy pleasuring himself to elderly woman. There was a younger lady that would try on pumps for an older man as he videotaped and took pictures of said pump trying on. Just normal work type stuff .8
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I used to work in a DIVE of a hotel during college. We had a regular who would ride his bike up and down the halls. Naked. I honestly just let him do it as long as he didn't take any orange juice.7
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Once, I worked at a job where all I did was take naps on mattresses to test their quality.3
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I work in property management and the A/C drip pan had overflowed in one of our short term rental units and we could not get the repair man out that day. We had to drain some of the water out. My suggestion was a shop vac. My boss went and got a hose, put one end in the drip pan in the nasty attic and ran the hose down into the bathroom and asked me to suck on the end of the hose to draw the water out. Nope. Wasn't happening. I told her to do it. She did (nasty *kitten*) and I gave my 2 weeks notice.1
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Two, when I worked at Jack in the Box in high school. One was a kid who "surfed" on top of his mom's SUV when they came through the drive through. He didn't think it through, though, because they had to sit there and wait for us to get the food ready for them. He was so embarrassed that he jumped off the car and hid behind the opposite side from the window.
The next one was BRILLIANT. A guy in a gorilla suit drove through, blasting the Lion King "In the Jungle" song. Nearly gave me a heart attack!1 -
In high school and college I worked at a lumber yard. Often guys would dig in their pockets, pull out a handful of change then blow little curly hairs off before handing me a few coins. I told myself it was leg hair.
And I had a few guys get super pissy when I would tell them they pulled the wrong stuff. Like 10'ers instead of 8 or treated instead of pine. I would just smile sweetly and offer to have one of the guys from the commercial desk come out and take a look. Never had a guy take me up on that. Apparently the shame of a girl correcting them wasn't so bad after all, by comparison.1 -
Had a guy bring his elderly friend in for assistance with his electric bill. The friend couldn't walk and they didn't have a wheelchair, so he rolled up to the building pushing his friend in a shopping cart. Then picked him up and brought him inside. Good guy. We had an extra wheelchair and gave it to him.6
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I once saw a lady washing her shoes in the bathroom. Not just wiping them down but full on washing them in the sink. She said she spilled her soup in her bag and everything in there had soup on it. Now why on earth would you put your shoes in the same bag as your lunch is beyond me, but ok.
Another time I heard a lady laughing hysterically at herself for wearing 2 different color shoes. Same exact shoe, but one red and one black. She must've gotten dressed in the dark??? idk how that happens to people. Do you not look in the mirror before you leave the house? smh1 -
I had a wife ask me if I could cut out her husbands heart and give it to her.
Last year, I had two families accidentally bring me nudes.8 -
I once had a job where the boss treated everyone nicely and didn't micromanage. The employees all got along in a friendly relaxed way and none of them gossiped or interfered with their co-workers. They actually worked as a team, before that cliche was even hatched. The place ran smoothly and if you really needed a day off, boss would give it to you without making you feel bad about it. No scandals or unpleasant situations took place.
About 5 years after I quit a national corporation took the place over. It was a small business and couldn't compete. Sad. I love remembering that place and feel blessed to know that such a workplace even existed and that I got to work there.
If such a place existed today, it would definitely be considered weird in comparison to current workplace cultural norms.
Such places and bosses DO exist, but, as a rule, they don't last. Good bosses get promoted or transferred, or whatever, and everything goes downhill from there1 -
I've had weird things happen at every job but probably the 2 best were at my drugstore job in high school.
1- We found a super-nice leather jacket on top of a Kleenex display and in the pocket was a huge bag of weed. No one ever came looking for the jacket (probably due to its contents) so our manager conveniently took it home, and claimed he turned in the weed to the cops. Riiiight.
2- A guy came in wearing a homemade looking t-shirt that said "Leroy the Laundry King" and I jokingly said to him, "Are you Leroy the Laundry King?" and he got all sad-eyed and said, "no. Well, I used to be..." and I seriously thought he was gonna cry. He was maybe 30-40 years old and looking kind of strung out.
The weirdest thing I've ever seen in an office job was a time when someone got poo on the edge of a toilet seat in the ladies room and our normally calm supervisor called every female on our floor to the bathroom and made us look at the poo and shamed everyone about it. NO clue who the heck did it. But it was so inappropriate of the supervisor...I actually thought her actions were worse than the mystery person with terrible hygiene...5 -
I worked for a drug store and had a very large, strong, barrel of a man pull me to the side of the make up wall and asked me to set him up with all them make up he would need to his skin tone and nail polish to go with a red sequin gown.
no judgment at all but was very very strange.2 -
I used to work for a funeral home and cemetery. Without getting into too much gross detail, we had a rather large person who was found a few days after he passed. The family did not want cremation, yet could not afford an oversized casket. He stayed in a body bag the entire time, but when it came time to transfer him from cooler to casket, we need 4 people to help. Then, the lid wouldn't close. The family had made it very clear they did not want an oversized casket, so I ended up having to sit on the lid while the funeral director worked to seal it. I swore that man was going to come back and haunt us all!
I work at a different job now, and just the other day, a man walked up to the building, dropped his pants and peed on our front door. Then he proceeded to walk in and say he needed to use our phone and wifi. Um.....no.2 -
I watched a penis amputation...on a snake, they have forked penises1
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In college, I worked at a research facility where my job entailed taking donated decomposed human remains and boiling them so that the bones could be added to the skeletal collection.
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I once had a giraffe jump over my head.1
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dwrightlaw wrote: »In college, I worked at a research facility where my job entailed taking donated decomposed human remains and boiling them so that the bones could be added to the skeletal collection.
Wut? Macy's cosmetics counter wasn't hiring? IHOP dishwashing department maybe? That's pretty hardcore.
I was studying forensic science, so it was both relevant to my studies and very interesting...unlike IHOP/Macys3 -
I work at subway and one time someone stole the handles from the men's bathroom sink. Just that, nothing else even remotely valuable.
Another time a woman who must've been undiagnosed and unstable (she had no help with her) smeared feces all over our bathroom walls with her hands because she recieved 'bad service'. I hope she got help.0
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