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Bosses like Michael Scott from The Office really do exist out there.
It seems like it would probably be a barrel of laughs, but I have a feeling that if you’re in the thick of a situation like that, it’s likely not very much fun.
Let’s all enjoy these funny stories from AskReddit users about their weird, funny, and annoying bosses.
“My Italian Michael Scott boss has that traditional stubbornness which he’s really allowed to display since it’s a traditional gelato shop and we’re an at-will state (US).
One summer, he fired a kid for ‘not being hygienic and not cleaning well’ when we all knew the boss was uncomfortable this kid was queer.
Next summer, I’m the manager and my then assistant manager and I are both queer women. In the midst of a mild homophobic/heretophobic (?) misunderstanding, we both came out to my boss. At one point before opening he pulls me outside to ask me a “personal question”- if I preferred having s*x with men or women.
I told him women, and I’m a pretty open person and find jokes help break barriers, so I ask him which he prefers. He says women, “of course,” and we walk back inside where my assistant manager is and joke about it with her, and I tell him he’s a lesbian since he prefers women. He finds this f*cking hilarious, and yells out in the shop
“I GUESS I’M A LESBIAN!”
He’s grown more understanding ever since. His questions are sincere, though sometimes badly phrased.
“I had one and these are just a few quick stories
He asked me how much I weighed during my interview
One time he was considering selling the company to a Japanese company and while walking them around the building he was heard saying ‘we really bombed the hell out of you, huh?’
He got on the intercom and interrupted everyone by yelling for someone to bring him the football team’s schedule
I have video of him telling a really cringy joke during a sales meeting. You could see at least one person covering their face in embarrassment
One time he told me to call his assistant and have her bring him a bag of coffee and his 5lb dumbbell
He had a ‘secret’ facelift. He was mysteriously gone for 3 weeks and came back with a beard.
I ended up with a box of pictures from the 70s with an exotic dancer giving him a lap dance. In the conference room. Same furniture.
One time I watched his business partner go down the pot luck line, tasting everything with the same fork. At the end of the line, he stuck his used fork into the cake. I haven’t eaten at a work buffet since.
Honestly, these are just the ones I immediately remember. It was 5 years of this.”
“My brother had two bosses at his first job that I think fit this. It was an old married couple that owned the gym across the street from us. Probably in their 70s when he started working there. The wife was from Germany and super strict, the husband was clearly losing it Some notable mentions are:
•when the husband combined bleach and ammonia to clean the hot tub and sauna room, tear gassing my brother in the process
•wife insisted the street be swept once a week, this was my brothers task. Almost every single time, the husband would come out halfway through with a leaf blower and destroy any progress my brother had made
•husband would regularly sit in the sauna for way too long and have to be rescued by brother and coworkers
•brother opened every Saturday. They never gave him a key so he would have to hop the fence to get in.”
“Yep, I had one.
Organized a thoroughly awkward award ceremony once (that we never did again).
Asked a Mexican employee if his new baby’s name was going to be “No Mas” during the shower we threw for him.
Heard me once use the phrase “economy of scale,” then used it wrong 5 minutes later in a conversation with different people.
Didn’t know the meaning behind “Black Friday” and what it meant for a company to be “in the black.”
Just like Michael Scott, only more of a d*ck.”
“Long ago, my 80 year old boss pulled me into his office
B: “Paul, I’ve noticed that your shirts come untucked and that looks unprofessional”
Me: I’m sorry about that Joel
B: I want you to start tucking your shirts into your underwear
Me: Uhhh…
B: Go ahead and and try it now.
Me: Joel, you know I have 15 women who report to me – I can’t un-do my pants in the office.
B: Sure you can. Drops pants. He is 80 and wearing Spiderman underoos…”
“I worked for a woman as her “personal assistant/ cat sitter”. She was super rich and off the deep end nuts.
She had me order a mannequin online, and then paid me to take one of the mannequin legs to Nordstrom to try and see what suitcase I could buy that would fit the dismembered mannequin body, because she wanted to fly with the mannequin to Pittsburgh to display “as her daughter”, dressed in her daughter’s clothes, at that daughter’s graduation celebration.
Buying the mannequin was a whole thing too. She kept trying to get me to order from “adult doll” websites because she didn’t get it.”
“My boss used to carry around a backpack full of hammers and if you fell sleep at your desk he started banging a hammer on your desk until you woke up and then he would autograph the hammer and give it to you as a gift.”
“Had a manager at my previous job that really, really tried his best to be everyone’s BFF.
He loved giving pep talks and thought he could raise our abysmal morale by being Mr. Positivity (note: morale was low because we were always buried in work and paid sh*t).
He’d crack jokes, randomly burst into song and sneak up behind you to yell “you’re doing a great job!”
Unfortunately, he was also super incompetent at his job. He relied heavily on a junior colleague for help with technical stuff (they practically did his whole job for him), and spent days working on paperwork that should really only take an hour or two.
If you had a problem, his answer was usually either to stare blankly at you until you left or to say “think positive and it’ll work itself out!”
Thing he did I hated the most: whenever people would apply to work at the company, he’d print out the stack of resumes, sit at his desk and read aloud all of the parts he found “funny.”
He’d laugh at people for working at McDonald’s or other fast food places. He loved finding grammar mistakes and making fun of them. If someone had a cringe-y objective statement, he’d guffaw over that too. This was all done loudly, and it was a open office so you couldn’t avoid hearing it.
That definitely lowered morale too.”
“Worked with a genuine Michael Scott: i.e. a nice, well-meaning person who just did some absurd things.
We had kidnapping drills one day, where we learned how to ‘not be kidnapped’. Notably, this was a regular, boring office in a regular, boring suburb. No reason why kidnapping would be on anybody’s radar…
He and several of the guys randomly broke out into a push-up contest. Again. White collar office. Middle-aged dudes in khakis.
Couldn’t remember the nationality of our Hispanic colleague. Tried to “learn Spanish” to make her feel special when she returned from maternity leave. (1) What he learned was NOT Spanish, and (2) she was from Portugal. She knew like, five words of Spanish.
Disappeared for four days. No call. No email. Wouldn’t respond to any of our attempts to reach him. Finally, someone drove out to his house to make sure he was alive. He was. He’d just forgotten to tell us he was taking the week off, and then lost his phone in a lake.
There were many, many moments like these. Great boss. Genuinely cared about everyone in the company. Occasional moments of brilliance, where he really got things done.
But OMG, so many moments of ridiculousness.”
“We had an anonymous feedback program at work, and our boss was livid with the results, particularly with several comments that he frequently lost his temper in meetings and would yell at us.
The more he talked about how incorrect and unfair and hurtful these comments were, the redder and angrier he got, until he finally pounded the table and shouted, “I DO NOT! SCREAM! IN MEETINGS! OKAY?”
“Mine had aspects of Michael Scott but the ones that are sad and pathetic and not funny. A couple examples:
he called an all staff meeting to announce his divorce. He then instructed our receptionist to lie to his soon to be ex wife and deny he was in the office, all the time.
he was just so, so incompetent at his job. If a task was too big or complicated he would just …. Not do it. Wouldn’t ask for help or anything, he’d just move on and leave whatever issue to fester. I would have to constantly monitor and follow up with him to get things done that effected my job
his writing read like he used a thesaurus heavily. Tons of superfluous words clearly put in there to make him sound smart
when he was terminated he kept the corporate laptop and cell phone. After several strongly worded letters requesting their return, he drove back to the office, parked on the edge of the road (think busy rural highway) and made his teenage son carry it all across the yard and parking lot to deliver them
I was eventually tasked by the big bosses to coordinate his termination. They then gave me his job plus my previous one. I can do both within a 40 hr week no problem.”
“I had one for a year and it was awesome!
If he would be in the middle of a story and the phone rang he would literally say “let it go to voicemail”. If a customer called 5 min before closing he’d demand I let it ring and go to VM.
He was late more often than I was. He frequently bought us coffees. He always took our side in customer disputes and if a customer yelled at us or got abusive on the phone, he would call them back and get into an argument with them and tell them to order from someone else.
He straight out told us that if weather conditions were bad he didn’t care how late we were, just that we were safe. Sometimes he would tell me on random days to take a two hour lunch ( I was salary and didn’t punch in or out). He was great! And he gave me so much free stuff.
We used to call him Micheal Scott behind his back!
Unfortunately… the owners were a bit stricter.. Myself and another coworker got fired and said boss got demoted. It was fun while it lasted.”
“I’ve had a few. One would only approve your days off if you played into her ego.
Her boring stories had to be the most fascinating thing you had ever heard. She would come into the office and spin around in a new outfit and we had to pretend it was amazing.
I had to work every weekend for months until I started playing along.”
“I used Michael Scott as a reference point for an old boss of mine from the moment I started working there.
He made Chewbacca noises on the regular because one of my coworkers’ names sort of vaguely sounded like Chewbacca (it didn’t), used voice to text extremely loudly in his office for no reason to send really personal messages, got really excited and wore a specific vest any time we had after-work outings scheduled.
Shouted the same like 7 references to old movies and extremely awkward hip-hop song quotes 100 times a day, and insisted on greeting all our international coworkers very loudly in their language (they all speak perfect English, of course)
Looking around for approval afterward, and then fully giggling at everyone’s French accents on conference calls. He also told me a lot about an improv show he did for a full year after it happened.
That said – he had all the good parts too. He never hesitated go to the mat for any of us whether we deserved it or not, he gave really sage business advice and great examples of how to face challenges out of absolutely nowhere, and he came to every community play I did in the 4 years I worked for him.
And told everyone else in the office how good I was in it for the following month and chastised them for not coming. When things really got serious or bad in my life, he couldn’t have been more kind, helpful, and supportive.
Honestly? Probably the best boss I’ll ever have.”
Have you ever had any ridiculous bosses in your life?
If so, we want to hear your stories!
Tell us all about them in the comments!
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I’ve never had a boss that was like The Office‘s Michael Scott, but I’ve definitely seen some characteristics in a few of them that made me cringe just a little bit.
And maybe if I could put all my past bosses together and pick out the most ridiculous traits of each one I’d be able to create one INCREDIBLY ANNOYING head honcho.
But these kinds of bosses really do exist and they’re out there in charge of employees all over the place!
AskReddit users went on the record with their funny boss stories.
“I had a boss once who spent all morning locked in his office.
He asked me to come in after lunch where he showed me a handmade graph. He then proceeded to explain that this was a chart of all the s*x he had ever had in his life.
“See, here it is blank until I joined the army. Then I went to a hooker here. Then they sent me to Vietnam where hookers only charged $2 per time. That’s where you see the big jump. I was on two tours but then got shot in the face. I came back home and you see how it just drops to almost nothing. ”
I was astounded.”
“My boss is certainly Michael Scott-esque.
When I first started I was essentially Pam as well since I was both receptionist and his assistant to some extent. My favorite story was back when we were prepping for a conference.
Some context, he’s terrible with the English language in general and will mangle phrases and descriptions to no end (how the turn tables…). So on a group call he kept talking about wanting a “golden hamster ball” to do giveaways with.
Was raving about how great it would be spinning around while people walked by, all the while everyone on the call was just sitting in confused silence. However by that point, I had become so good at decoding his nonsense that I knew he was referring to a gold raffle cage and sent him image privately asking if it’s what he was thinking.
To this day he still talks about the fact I can read his mind and must be psychic. And he still refers to it as a hamster ball.
All in all he’s a pretty nice guy and a solid boss. Hired me based on a gut feeling and has been decent to me ever since. I think I knew it would be a good fit when during the interview he tried to tell me about the four pillars of the company and forgot one.
Told me later it was Knowledge.”
“He wanted a pomegranate for lunch and they were out of season, but that didn’t stop him from sending me on a quest to every grocery store in town in search of a pomegranate.
Multiple produce guys laughed at me, but that was the easiest $13/hr I’ve ever made.”
“I had a redhead boss who made us all sit down and watch a training video about how we shouldn’t refer to him as a “ginger” because it is bullying.
No one had ever called him that.”
“Had a boss who was very peculiar. For instance, he’d open a random closet, look at the stuff inside, then go on a tirade, “look at all this! Who bought all this crap?!?!” – “Uh, you did”.
“Oh. Well somebody needs to throw it away!”
Constant stuff like this.”
“I had a boss that used to watch me through a gap in the glass partition between our desks. She wanted to see if I was paying attention during meetings.
One day, I put a large folder to cover the gap and she freaked. I still laugh when I think about it.”
“I once worked for a family company (not my family) where my boss often had loud fights with her husband, mother, and sister (an addict with a penchant for stealing) in the halls. I have a million wonderful stories about that workplace but one that stuck out to me is this:
Once for someone’s birthday, she decided it would be fun to buy an anatomically correct, male blowup doll. She took this doll into the office, blew him up, and dressed him in a construction vest (the company was a contractor).
When I walked by, my boss was trying to manipulate the position of the blowup d*ck, and asked me if I wanted to be the “fluffer”.”
“I had a boss sneak up behind a middle-aged female employee and pick her up, then immediately drop her down saying “I didn’t think you weighed that much!” He could not stop laughing.
He was the principal of the school.
This occurred during passing period in a crowded middle school hallway.”
“My boss insisted his daughters be flower girls in my wedding.
I declined.
At the reception, he told me I was spending too much time talking to one person, and I need to work the room more.”
“He held a meeting with our whole team less one person to discuss said person being gay.
We all knew for well over a year, and never made a deal of it.
So yes, they are out there and that is why the show is so funny to me. I can relate…”
“I literally had a boss who would stop us in the middle of our work and hold company-wide meetings talking about 9/11 truther conspiracies and chemtrails.
Mind you we were furniture-making company.
He would get so caught up in his conspiracy theories that he forgot to order wood to make furniture one month.”
“My first boss in America, I was 21. He was Asian-American. I had never seen the office but noted the absurdity.
He would get free potato chips from a guy in a company truck and would stuff his cheeks in the middle of telling me what to do. He always offered some.
Fired a coworker for screaming some racist stuff at me by just..yanking her out the door.
Called another coworker a cub or a baby lion because she was tiny with wild unruly hair. Would do a small mini roar whenever she was about to report for her shift or when I mentioned her name.
Ran around the place with a wig on his head imitating me.
Brought his daughter to work and give her piggy back rides in the office. Would ask me to take videos.
Would talk to black people in a “black” way. He would say wassup shorty to the ladies and what’s poppin. Called the guys Tyrone and would say shieeeeeet in his most convincing “black” voice. It was actually pretty good.
Would ask me to teach him random Arabic words so he could yell them sporadically in the middle of the day. He always got the accent right.
Had an open door policy and would do shots in his office.
Started a small chicken farm in the back of the building and would give out whole chickens to the staff. Had me and a coworker try to slaughter one one time. I couldn’t and nicked it just a little bit and shrieked, spraying all three of us with blood.
Received a visit from the city people to tell him he couldn’t keep chickens in back. He was rounding the main floor with a small basket of freshly laid eggs just as they were asking for him.
Did the chicken farm again the next summer, this time with a small garden growing squash, cucumber, corn etc to disguise the chicken coop. Happily gave out vegetables along with chicken.
Would be extremely proud of taking home a tray of his own eggs to his children. Ate two fresh eggs every morning.
Bought a wok to work to deep fry sausages in. Sometimes made lunch in the back. The entire floor would smell like food and he would round us all (3 of us) to his office to eat.
Would regularly fall asleep under his desk. The snoring was so loud you could hear it in the front. Once a client asked what that noise was and I said it was the plumbing.
Woke up after his naps looking puffy but acting as if nothing happened. Would immediately go next door for a Cherry coke.
Would constantly eat hard candy to stay awake during the day.
Ate too many edibles at a party I hosted once and passed out.
Told me to hire someone but when he saw the girl did a comical thing with his face, eyebrows raised and eyes big ( think Ken Jeong ) because she was having trouble fitting into her chair. She was a bigger girl.
Took away chairs the next day because they “encouraged us not to concentrate on the client.” The girl was a no call no show the following week.
Had a love hate relationship with a groundhog not long into his farming venture. He never caught the guy.
Once threw a cricket at me from the very opposite end of the office floor. He and another coworker kept such straight faces as I finally convinced myself the cricket flung itself at me. I watched the cameras at the end of the day only to see them do it. I’m still traumatized.
Has an office to this day full of the weirdest collection of things. A few feather from favorite chickens of his that he had since consumed all named and dated, a rabbit paw someone gave him, a goat’s hoof, a framed quote I told him told to me by a very high homeless person.. I don’t remember the rest. It’s just an odd place to go into.
Had a hard time growing a beard and would ask me what I thought of the progress of his “soup taster.”
Nicest boss I’ve ever had. Well meaning if a little racially insensitive all while being fascinated by other people’s cultures. He would buy different cuisines for us to try each week. Gave bonuses because he knew the job didn’t pay much so that was always a nice surprise. He paid my former coworker when she had to stay home all through her husband’s Covid.
Also, he loves llamas, alpacas, baby goats and when I showed him how to use Reddit he would almost always sends me an alpaca photo. I still get a photo now and then.
Also 3 years after leaving he still sends me photos of his illegal farm and recently asked me to post his cucumbers on Reddit.
Also I forgot to add that he fell into poison ivy bush once and didn’t know right away. He ran around screaming until we sat him in his office semi undressed and put medicine on his wounds. He was so miserable for days, it was hard to watch.
He dove head first into the wall when asleep once and needed to go to the doctor and get 3 stitches on his busted lip. He came to work that morning with a huge lip and kept having to explain himself all day.
We kept joking his wife was beating him up. He still insisted on snacking as usual. At one point he sipped ketchup with a straw.”
Did you ever have a boss that reminded you of Michael Scott?
If the answer is YES, then please share your stories with us in the comments.
We’d love to hear from you!
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Having a job that you enjoy and that EMPOWERS you is pretty incredible. And, if we’re being honest, those kinds of jobs are also pretty hard to find.
But they do exist, so don’t give up hope if you’re looking for a new gig.
It’s also nice to hear from people who are in those kinds of jobs so you can be inspired by their experiences and keep pushing for the best that you can be.
And hey, you never know: maybe you can change the culture at your own company over the course of time…
Enjoy these tweets about people talking about the empowering things they enjoy about their job.
All about amplifying voices.
What is the one most empowering thing about your profession? I'll go first.
Journalism: Amplifying the voices that otherwise would not reach the powerful.
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) July 28, 2020
It’s what public health is about.
Public Health – Taking health services to the last man, exactly how it should have been
— Dr Pooja Tripathi (@Pooja_Tripathii) July 28, 2020
Brilliant minds.
Scientist (especially as a woman in STEM): Learning from a community of brilliant minds the world over; amplifying the voices of women and their groundbreaking research.
— Jayantika Chakraborty (@JayantikaChakr1) July 28, 2020
Keep up the great work!
Disability advocacy and sensitization. Living it, and showing by example how its done
— Payal Kapoor (@payalkp) July 28, 2020
Helping minds.
Psychiatrist: Reach to complex minds of persons with mental illness..and helps these minds with skills & ammunition integrated with science of Medicine & art of psycho-social interventions
— Dr. Om Prakash (@ompsychiatrist) July 28, 2020
Getting through all the challenges.
My profession is to be there for cancer patients making sure they are compliant and able to access treatment no matter what . My job is to be there for them and their family at all times .There are challenges galore but their love and courage keep me on track and is reward enough
— Viji Venkatesh (@vijivenkatesh) July 28, 2020
I love this one.
Creating impact through art. People leave the movie theatres with their ideas questioned.
— Sulagna Chatterjee (@BeingChatterjee) July 28, 2020
Working towards answers.
Research: Being able to work towards finding answers that could eventually contribute to meaningful improvements in medicine and health.
— Rubina Mulchandani (@Rubina_BigB_EF) July 28, 2020
Keep them coming!
writer. i tell myself stories i could be living to escape the one i currently am.
— secret candy super dandy brandy randy shibs (@lordoftheshibs) July 28, 2020
And it’s affordable, which is nice.
Filling stomach of people at affordable rates with taste and raising their sprits
— rocking it loud (@godafterhim) July 28, 2020
It’s essential work.
I help build careers of students, get a purpose and direction in life.
Teach them how to think critically, rationally so that they can get rid of wrong ideas that society often imposes on them –
which is essential for humans to progress and this what empowers them the most.— adarsh utkarsh (@UtkarshAdarsh) July 28, 2020
Works for some people, for sure.
As a freelance content writer for hire, my profession empowers me rather than anyone else by giving me livelihood as well as free time.
Not quite noble in the macro-sense but great in a narrow self-sense.— namita
(@namitaj68) July 28, 2020
Now we’d like to hear from you!
In the comments, tell us what you love about your job.
We can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
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I know what I think about this possibility…I love it!
Now, I don’t have a 9-5 job anymore like I did in the past, but if I did, I’d be all about working ten hours a day for four days a week instead of the standard five.
Three-day weekend EVERY WEEK? Booyah!
Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say about the prospect of a four-day work week.
“Working a 5 day work week just makes life seem so much more pointless.
By the time I get the other things I need to do (grocery shopping, appointments, etc.) done, its Sunday night.
A 4 day work week might give me time to play the piano I bought to combat depression.”
“My company switched to 4 10 hour days. We are diesel technicians and work 7-5:30. Half of us work Monday through Thursday and the other half work Tuesday through Friday.
We have did this for over two years and we all love it. It is so nice to have a three day weekend every week. Another thing about it that is nice is if you doctors appointment or something I can make it on a Monday and don’t have to miss any work.
Plus I forgot to mention having a two month this helps out a ton. More time for me to be with my wife and daughter. And if there is a lot to do I can just come in on Monday and boom 10 hours of overtime.”
“Life would be that much better.
I would have somewhere around 50 extra days a year to do all the yardwork and home projects that I don’t want to spend all weekend doing.”
“It’s great, don’t get me wrong, but if you have to work the full 40, it’s not as great as you might think. An extra 2 hours a day doesn’t sound like much, but it takes a while getting used to.
Especially when you are drained, and you still have a few hours left. On top of that, if you have a family and you got off at 5, now you’re getting off at 7. So if you have small children, that gives you roughly an hour with them a day before they go to bed, which has been a deal breaker for some coworkers in the past.
If you instead go in earlier, you now can’t be the one to take the kids to school. You miss out on after school sporting events. On top of that, you’re just generally more drained from going 120% for four days in a row.
I still think it’s worth it. But not by much.”
“I would gladly work 4 ten hour days to have an extra day off.
2 day weekends are too short. They’re gone just as soon as you start to feel comfortable.”
“I work 4 10s a week instead of the usual 8 5s and I f*cking love it.
2 extra hours each shift is easily worth the 3 day weekend.
Feel like I actually get a break from work each week.”
“Think it makes sense.
All the evidence suggests it works, and the welfare benefits would be enormous.”
“My BF works 4 10s and it’s a total game changer.
It’s adjusted his schedule so he wakes up at earlier hours on his days off, which gives him more day in his day, on top of already having an extra one.
I’m self-employed and I try to have all my work done by Friday’s, so we usually get 3 day weekends together, which also makes taking short trips easier without missing any work.
It also opens up a weekday for him to do certain things that have more limited hours on weekends like appointments and whatnot.”
“Given that we now have more people in the workforce and supposedly more “productivity” because of automation, we ought to be dropping down to 32 hour weeks to compensate for the changes in our household structures.”
“I think it’s less about 4 day work weeks, but more about work life balance.
For people that’s already working more than 10hrs day or no-pay overtimes or working during holidays, working 4 days week means very little.”
“In terms of climate change it’d be about 20% less CO2 emissions from commuters which is nice.
Not just commuting, but running a workplace. Industrial jobs are the most obvious, but even an office building full of computers, lights, climate control, etc uses a lot of energy.”
“As long as it is 4 – 8 hour days with no change in pay.
I can get the same amount of work done in 32 hours as I get done in 40.”
“I would do some or all of the following:
Cook more
Play more competitive video games
Join a band
Play dodgeball
Go to the doctor/dentist once in a while
Travel out of state more often.”
“It wouldn’t work for me.
I work at an animal hospital, open 7 days a week, and there’s not enough of us to go around. And the company would never hire enough people to cover for a four day work week.”
How about you?
What do you think about a 4-day work week?
Please share your thoughts with us in the comments!
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Have you been in this situation before?
Maybe it happened at work, or maybe it happened out in public, but you BLOW IT and FUCK UP in a huge way and you go into panic mode.
Now you need to fix your FUCK UP before anyone notices.
It’s a race against the clock but somehow you pull it off.
Whew! That was a close call!
AskReddit users shared their stories that are just like this.
“Fucked up numerous times working on live applications. The best one was accidentally deleting the user table.
I was trying to delete a subset of users and managed to hit the key to run the statement before I’d written the “where” clause. If you don’t have a “where” clause to tell the database which records you want to delete, it just deletes all of them.
Luckily, the user table was only ever read by the application on log-in, so no one was going to notice unless they happened to log-in in the 2 mins or so it took me to load the records back in from a back-up.”
“Working at a laboratory that used acid solutions to dissolve geological samples for various tests, my technical manager left a component of a machine in a plastic beaker filled halfway with concentrated hydrofluoric acid, unlabeled, in a fume hood that other people used regularly, “to see what it would do”.
I dumped it in a neutralizer and this asshole had the balls to yell at me for ruining his “test”. I told him it would etch and dissolve the part because it was glass, and he didn’t require a test because that’s already a known property.
Had someone spilled it on even a gloved hand, the hydrofluoric acid would pass through protection and enter the bloodstream without sensation, where it would leach calcium out of the bones, wreaking havoc on the nervous system causing a horrible, agonizing death.”
“I once had a roommate who didn’t speak English too well. She was moving away, and she was leaving in a hurry, and before she left she asked me to “take care of” a big bag of what was apparently clothes.
I assumed those were trash she didn’t want to take with her, and she just didn’t have time to throw them away, so once she left, I took that bag to the trash canister outside. A few hours later, that interaction just came back to my mind and seemed strange to me. I went back to the trash canister, the bag was still there, and brought it back inside.
The next day, she came back to get it and thanked me for “taking care of it”. She was a nice, poor girl from a rural region that was already struggling in the city, and I don’t want to think about what would have happened if I had to tell her that I threw her clothes into the trash.”
“Worked at a record / video rental store. After work on a weeknight, we close at 10pm, clean the store, count the register, lock the safe and go home.
When we clean the store we would often play a CD someone may have returned or which we wouldn’t normally play. Tonight it was 2 Live Crew’s ‘Banned In The USA’ CD with their hit single, ‘Pop That Pussy’. We put this on and crank it and start falling over laughing.
The bass is insane. We have 8 speakers set up around the perimeter of the store, all on shelves hanging near the ceiling. We hear this loud “THUNK” and cannot pinpoint what it was. We notice a speaker is “missing”… then find the corpse. It had jumped off it’s shelf and split into several chunks in the aisle.
Our night manager acted fast. “YOU!” she said, pointing to the 18 year old cashier. “Here’s $10. Go next door to Walgreens and get wood glue!” He’s gone. We start seeing if we can piece it back together. He returns. We glue it up and gently set that bitch back up on it’s shelf and left the speaker wire oh-so-gently unhooked.
The store closed about 6 years later and the manager never found out! We won! Yay Miami bass! Yay Pop That Pussy!”
“I was mixing IVs at the hospital.
Someone had put the wrong bag in the wrong bin. I didn’t notice.
I proceeded to make a batch of epidurals out of the wrong medicine. No one caught it. It somehow made it to the OB floor.
I came back into the IV room and saw the empty bag hanging and my stomach dropped. I called OB to ensure none had been used and to make sure it wouldn’t. Brought them back and wrote myself up.
If I hadn’t caught it, it would of caused major issue’s including the possibility of killing the patients. There were 12 syringes if I remember correctly.
I learned a very valuable lesson that day.”
“This is great timing, I was just thinking about this a few hours ago.
I rented a room from a couple and one of the rules was that I could not enter their yard. In their yard they had all sorts of animals a lovely quaky duck, a few cats and chickens. The chickens were in a big coop cause the cats hunting instincts were still to prevalent.
One weekend they asked me to feed the chickens while they went on a trip. On the last day of feeding all the chickens got out (5), and I noticed just in time to rip one of the chickens from the cats mouth.
After another hilarious 30 minute chase I’d put all the chickens back in the coop, minutes before they came home. I don’t think they noticed.”
“Years ago, I lived in DC. One morning, riding in on the Metro I was changing trains from the Red line to the Blue. I heard the door chime and realized I wasn’t going to make this train. As I stopped, a guy bumped into me and ran on around and jumped on the train as the door chime sounded again. As he passed, I heard a thump and saw his cell phone hit the ground.
In one motion, I knelt down, grabbed the phone, stood up and under-armed the phone 20 feet and hit hit smack in the middle of his chest. He caught the phone, and looked up right at me in shock- then the door closed.
I said to myself, “Well, damn. No one saw that so I can never brag about it.” Then I heard a voice behind me say “Holy shit! That was awesome!” Guy who sat in the office right next to me was coming up behind me, heading into work at the same time. So since Tony saw it, I get to brag about it!”
“Working on a presentation and managed to misspell the CEO’s name.
We’d been working on it for weeks, the name had been there probably since day 3 or 4. No one spotted it cause who would be dumb enough to get it wrong? I finally caught it about a week before it went to the presentation.
Definitely one of my sections, so glad I got it before it could do damage.”
“Worked in an IT company. Had to switch of the routines for data backups because of I even don’t know anymore. Forgot to switch them on again. After around 2 years I noticed it more by coincidence. Felt very warm and sweaty instantly.
If data loss had happened, that would have been the end of the company. And the end of my career of course.”
“Caught a coworker pulling safety pins out of a support stand for a rather large and heavy jet engine component. I had two guys under the component and she was about to pull the last pin when I stopped her.
She was working with knowledge from a different style engine, and would have been correct on that model. In our model, she would have dropped a ton of metal on two guys.”
“I am a University professor.
I was watching porn one morning and closed my laptop without closing the browser. I then went to class, plugged the computer into the teaching station, and opened the screen. I was saved by the very brief delay between the image on my screen being displayed on the teaching station and it being displayed on the projector.
I managed to rip the HDMI cable out just before I projected to 100+ students.”
“I work in catering, on multiple occasions have noticed food that has managed to be packaged on site, hasnt reached its sell by date (most foods we label with a sell by date of 3 days after packaging) and yet has mold on it. I’m sure I dont have to explain the consequences of that, physical or legal.
Also one time i was on my break and the food on sale was curry and somehow the one batch they happened to serve first managed to be ice cold because some how they managed to forget to heat that one up.
Luckily I was the first person to take some so I picked it up before the customer otherwise there would have been issues.”
“I was lighting matches and throwing them around a yard beside the one that I grew up in and bf it was so sunny out I couldn’t see that I started a grass fire and it had gotten big. ( the grass was also dead) I managed to find an old oil drum, tipped it over and rolled it all along the perimeter of the growing bush fire.
If I hadn’t had that barrel I would have burned down several graineries and possibly vehicles. If it had gotten into the tree line, my yard would have gone up. Only you know about this. None of my family.”
“Was going on a three night backpacking trip with friends, it was my job to round up three breakfasts.
At REI I picked up what I thought were six packages of freeze dried eggs hanging from a peg. Turns out only the first was eggs, the ones behind it were Neapolitan ice cream. The packages were identical, only a small label indicated the contents.
Fortunately for me the first day and night of the trip we were harassed so badly by biting flies and mosquitoes everyone wanted to abandon the trip as nobody brought bug spray.
I only discovered my mistake days later. Bullet dodged.”
Whew! Those were some close calls!
Now we want to hear from you!
In the comments, tell us your personal stories about mistakes you fixed at the very last second before anyone noticed.
Thanks!
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All jobs have their ups and downs, but corporate jobs come with a lot of baggage.
You have to get dressed up, half of life feels like you’re stuck in traffic, and you have to learn all the corporate lingo and follow the RULES.
So many rules…
It can be kind of soul-sucking and that’s why these memes about working corporate jobs are hilariously accurate.
Let’s take a look, shall we?
You did it! Look at you!
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It’s a total transformation…and then it starts all over again on Monday.
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Sometimes, you just have to stare at your computer and do NOTHING.
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That’s always a soul-crusher.
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Ladies, back us up here.
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You just earned some points with the boss.
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It was glorious!
not having to bring my backpack to the last day of elementary school was the last time i truly felt free
— James (@CaucasianJames) May 6, 2019
It’s always good to get that last bit of crying in before you start your day.
The early bird gets to cry for a little bit longer in the work parking lot.
— Jay (@theshamingofjay) October 1, 2019
And maybe a little day drinking.
It's not a Sunday unless you completely waste it then feel really sad around 8pm.
— kyle (@itsdjluigi) March 26, 2017
I promise…
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Hang in there! You can do this!
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I think you need to stop laughing and get back to work ASAP so nobody knows that you’re messing around on company time.
Do you have any funny, ridiculous, or infuriating stories about your corporate job? Or maybe about one you had in the past?
If so, please share them with us in the comments.
Thanks in advance!
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Some people are really cut out for corporate jobs and some definitely are not.
The 9-5 grind can be a real grind, sitting in traffic both ways and having to deal with corporate culture in all its glory. The rules, the regulations…the bullshit.
Here are some hilarious memes that will definitely look familiar to those of you who work corporate gigs.
Let’s take a look!
You still need to stack that paper, right?
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Here it comes again…
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But you’re getting on my nerves…
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Don’t beat yourself up about it.
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Have you tried this one yet?
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And getting closer every day.
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But you’ll get through it! We believe in you!
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And forget it ever happened…
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Take some deep breaths.
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I don’t know if I can handle this today.
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If you really must know…
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But it’s best to just keep those thoughts to yourself.
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Are those accurate, or what?
Okay, now we want to hear from all you who work 9-5, corporate jobs out there.
Tell us what you like most AND what you like least about your job in the comments.
Do it when the boss isn’t looking!
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There’s a huge difference between people who aren’t very good at their jobs and those who willingly do bad things because they are…well, terrible people.
Sometimes, you can cut people some slack if they mess up at work and it was an honest mistake, but it always blows my mind when rude, crude, ignorant people are bad at their jobs (seemingly on purpose) and they still don’t get fired.
It’s enough to make your blood boil, isn’t it?
Here are some very interesting stories from folks on AskReddit about co-workers who got away with a whole lot of stuff and weren’t given the boot.
“Had a boss storing pictures of himself in only his wide open bathrobe on company servers. It was reported to HR but wasn’t fired for it.
Later he was arrested as part of an undercover sting where he thought he was meeting a 15 year old girl about 500 miles away.”
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HR rep found out about a person’s elective surgery and made fun of her with a former employee.
Let me recap: this person knew about an employee’s private medical information, because she worked with our healthcare plan in her role as HR, and shared that private information with another person for the sole purpose of mocking the employee.
She was not fired.”
“One of my former coworkers (she’s since been fired for stealing customers lottery winnings) told an elderly woman that she was stupid for not knowing how to pump gas.
This woman’s husband had recently passed and he had always pumped the gas for her, so she never learned. I had horrible second hand embarrassment when the woman came in and told us (we relayed it to the manager).”
“Eat weed, urinate outdoors on garbage cans in public, masturbate and drink on the job.”
“This dude walks a server out of the server room every six months or so to sell on eBay.
We have literally no security except the front door, but the owner is so ancient and out of touch I doubt she even remembers things are being stolen.”
“I work in a medical marijuana state.
One guy neglected to check a dry room for a few days assuming all was well. All was not well, at all. The dehumidifier crapped out while the plants were being hung to dry and sat in a warm, dark room for 3 days before it was someone elses responsibility to check it.
By that point every single plant was coated in mold and we had to throw out a little over a million dollars worth of product (side note: I had never done the math to see what he cost us until now and am mad all over again.
His only punishment was to be denied moving to day shift but other than that it was forgotten about.”
“Telemarketing co-worker was very obviously a psycho or sociopath. Showed up late every shift by definition, had quite a temper with authority, but would often just cause trouble out of boredom, by his own admission.
The most controversial thing he did one particular day was address every client he spoke to by the ‘n’ word. Once the manager heard him, he yelled at him outside for 20 minutes and that was the end of it.
A week later, this co-worker denied it had ever happened before going on a tangent about how he liked to start arguments with his girlfriend just to see her cry. Fucking sociopath.”
“I work in a garden center, this just happened today. Buddy has worked ONE (today) of his scheduled shifts in the past two weeks. He calls in all the time, leaves a message with the cashiers, and hangs up before a manager can talk to him.
On the off chance he does show up, he doesn’t do anything besides move some plants around. Hell, my mom was walking through the garden center today and saw him squatted behind a stack of plants playing on his phone.
Further, the guy takes multiple unauthorized breaks a day and sits in his car for at least an hour because his “back hurts.” He has had two write-ups for missing work and somehow this lazy shite is still on payroll. He’s an asshole towards both coworkers and customers alike.
Nothing he’s done is as preposterous as some of the stories I’m sure are on this thread, but the sheer consistency of his laziness is baffling to me.”
“I worked at a convenience store in a mall. We had lotto, and I had this worker who people called “crazy Joe.”
Sometimes, when people are doing lotto, they take a long time picking out tickets. So Joe was waiting on a guy, and he was taking a while, and a line was forming, pretty long. Joe looked at the line and yelled out “does anyone have a gun so I can kill myself?” He then stormed off.
Same place; Gene, a guy in his fifties, touched two of my co-workers’ asses; one was 17 at the time, the other 19. Both girls.
Neither one was fired.”
“Guy in the same building I work in was going into the common bathroom and watching porn in one of the stalls on his phone.
Dumbass was using earbuds but had the volume up so loud that anyone could hear it and know what it was. And to top it off, in the background noise you could hear him whacking it while the video played.
Finally someone noticed the shoes that were in view and busted him in the hallway later. HR was called and did interviews with all the dudes in the building who may have overheard him yanking it. Despite many confirmations he was never fired.
But oh the nicknames that came from it……”
“He was caught selling cocaine on work premises. Everyone was talking about how he was going to get fired for a week. Then everybody seemed
to have forgotten.It helps if the owner is your kid’s godmother.”
“I have a coworker that has terrible work ethic.
He doesn’t know how to separate his personal life from his work life so if he’s in a bad mood (which happens often), everyone will know including customers. He’s had at least three disciplinary meetings. Once he was caught just fucking around for an hour (not exactly sure what happened but our boss wasn’t happy).
Another time he just didn’t show up to work without calling in, and it was a day that everyone knew would be busy. I don’t know why he hasn’t been fired yet, everywhere else I’ve worked he would’ve been gone by now.”
“Drive around the yard on a forklift, no hands on the steering wheel, firing a nailgun at people and objects around the yard.”
“A coworker jumped out from behind a door at my husband, who is a disabled combat veteran with PTSD, dressed as if he was from the Middle East.
He was literally trying to trigger a flashback.
No repercussions, as he was the boss’ friend. Two weeks later, he fell down some icy steps and broke both legs. Karma took care of that one.”
Some of those stories bring back some bad memories from old jobs I’ve had…
Have you ever had any really terrible co-workers that seemed to get away with everything?
If so, please share your stories with us in the comments!
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