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Post by REQUIEM Puroresu on Mar 10, 2023 15:08:18 GMT
What's your funniest workplace horror story?
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Post by Brighamj96 on Mar 18, 2023 15:25:47 GMT
I worked at FedEx for over a year, I was hired right before the Covid shutdown in Montana, and about 11 months in I was bent over grabbing my water bottle when someone called my name. I wound up hitting my head on the track of the bay door and had to go home. The funniest part was when we were cleaning it, the manager I was working with had to have me basically hold a squat so she could see anything. Before I did the squat, she attempted to jump to see anything.
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Post by Aria Knight on Mar 18, 2023 16:53:13 GMT
Working during Covid was kind of a nightmare. Like all public places, we implemented the mask mandate. In rural south, suffice to say, not everyone enjoyed that.
A guy removed his eyepatch and put it over his mouth, revealing a grotesque eye injury and asked us if that was better. He then rambled about the government and the weather being controlled by satellites.
Then he died of Covid
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Post by littlemissvex on Mar 19, 2023 3:39:12 GMT
Stabbed myself with four scalpels in the thigh.
I can laugh about it now. Especially when the police showed up because the person who called 911 only said “there’s been a stabbing” and I told them I only did it to myself, then one of the paramedics leaned over and said “you may want to rephrase that, or else we have to take you to a different part of the hospital”.
So yeah, almost got a grippy-sock vacation because of an accident at work 🤣🤣
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Post by Cap on Mar 21, 2023 18:28:06 GMT
It's not really a horror story. Just a microcosm of a corporate workplace.
One time a coworker of mine was on paternity leave, then he came back. On a meeting with a bossman above my own boss, he congratulated me on my child and welcomed me back from paternity leave.
That's how nameless and replaceable we can be.
Otherwise, I've had plenty of nights where I've had to stay up until 3-5am in order to install new code/functionality into 'real-world' production environments, triaging various things while barely awake. The funniest night was earlier in my career, when I was so stressed and aggravated about it, that I started browsing linkedin on the spot for job openings. Unfortunately I soon after had to share my screen on the meeting call we were on. No doubt people saw that page up. Nothing was ever said about it.
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