Weird job stories

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.

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.

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.

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? smh

newmeadow wrote: »

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 there

I watched a penis amputation...

I once had a giraffe jump over my head.

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.

Wasn't part of my Job Description, but in 1974 I was in the jungle in Okinawa (USMC) for a two week drill. No showers or toilets or hot food. We had to shlt in 50 gallon barrels that were cut in half and had wood planks to sit on. Every day someone had to volunteer to go out at noon and fill those half barrels with diesel fuel and burn the waste. Then, bury the ashes. I got "voluntold" on the first day with my buddy Curtis. We noticed that there was no one within 200 yards when we had to do this. We also noticed that the smell of the burning diesel and waste masked any other smells. Since we had smuggled a little pot into the field, we volunteered every day thereafter. On the last day, we were taking a group photo of the Platoon. Captain Sawin stopped everyone and yelled at me. " Sgt. Vallandingham! Go get your shovel!" That picture (from 44 years ago) is on my wall in my mancave and people still ask me "What's with the shovel?".

Couple years ago, I found Captain Sawin on Social Media. Asked him if he remembered me and that two week drill. He told me he still has that picture hanging on his hallway wall and people keep asking him "What's with the shovel?"

cleighb22 wrote: »

I was working in a nursing home around 4 years ago. Well all of a sudden we hear this huge bang coming from the nurses station. A patient had climbed into the ceiling and fell through and landed on the nurses desk! He dusted himself off and went back to his room! I'm my two years of working there I had never seen the patient out of his bed! Even his family did not know he could walk!

This is my all time absolute favorite story!!

fruoshea wrote: »

I used to work in a shop and one day a guy came in and bought a pair of shorts. He came up to the till with the shorts on and said he wanted to leave wearing them, which was fine. It wasn't until I went into the fitting room that I realised he's pooped his pants and had left them in there for me to dispose of.
Omg noooo. Gawd.
I also used to work the night shift at the petrol station and one night a man came up to me and said "Do you have bananas?". (People weren't allowed into the shop at night, they had to shop through a window in the wall.) I said yes and he asked "How many?". So I counted them and told him "33". He bought all of them.

What in the heck... I wonder if he ran a monkey rescue. Or he was going to make bunch of frozen banana ice cream. Humm
This is a fun thread.