Has anybody here ever REALLY fucked up at work??!
I mean REALLY REALLY bad. As in deleted some important files or deposited money in a wrong account or caused an accident or been SCREAMED at by the boss or supervisor in front of everybody? Or have you ever spat the dummy and just walked off a job?
Tell us your worst workplace nightmare scenarios. The nastier the better.
Also, while we’re on the subject - have you ever worked with someone you HATED or someone who HATED you???
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Sure, we all have at one time or another.
I have a hate story:
For my fourth professional job, I had a supervisor who was the worst person I had ever worked with in my entire professional career. She hated me, herself, and a bunch of other people. She was eventually demoted and then she quit. Imagine “management by intimidation,” “power trips,” and her perceived personal social status as “a socialite” and you will have a pretty good idea of what she was like.
On that note:
I have to say that I love my current job and the job I had prior to it - and the people I work(ed) with. Two great groups of people who have their act together professionally and listen without elitist bullshit getting in the way. They want to do the right thing 100% of the time.
I am honored that they chose me to be part of their team(s) (I feel like I won the lotto sometimes) and gave me the specific responsibilities they have/did.
i once waited tables at an outdoor cafe in chicago, rush street, night schedule, and newly minted michael jordan and company came in and were perfect asses. then someone else came in, some loser who wanted the attention of the female waitstaff, started grabbing all around. i walked over and told this douschebag if he did it again i’d cut him.
i got fired.
I’ve seen fights between employees before - major punch-ups. I’ve never been involved in one though. I’ve also seen workers issue death threats to other workers. In my parents’ company we had one woman thrust a knife at another woman’s throat. She then went home and hung herself.
I was always the ‘boss’s son’ so I never really copped it. Although when I was younger I did work in a few different places before going to work in the family business. At one place I worked, I worked an evening shift operating a computer. The day shift guy whom I took over from, hated me for some reason. I would come in in the evening at the end of his shift and he would begrudgingly explain the work that was to be done as if it was a chore just to talk to me. He even turned some of the other workers against me. He was just a young, arrogant prick ( a big Silverchair fan too…so that expalins alot!!).
I know a guy who worked in a factory where one of the workers reversed a forklift truck into the boss’ brand new Mercedes. Poor guy didn’t even wait to get fired- just packed up his bags and left!!!
i miss the days where i could just quit jobs on the fly. it’s such a great feeling initially! the classic fuck off moment like in half baked. i have a standard of living i have grown accustomed to, and i don’t feel i can just quit like that anymore.
but then you get home and realize how much it sucks to have to try and find another job.
Not much of a disaster, but…
Back in high school, I worked maintenance in the technology department, fixing things from computers to VCRs to overhead projectors… you know, all that good A/V geek stuff. Anyway, one of the highlights of doing that was operating PA systems for motivational speakers, sports events, and the like, which basically translated into hours of goofing off, access to all kinds of tech goodies, and a nice paycheck to boot.
Well, during a wrestling meet at my high school, I decided to fuck with the announcer, who happened to be one of the vice principals and also happened to piss me the fuck off. Thus began the “fuck with his voice” game. Every few minutes or so, I’d mute the mic, go crazy with the panning, severely jack up the gain, and etc. I was having a pretty good time with this for almost a half hour, when the guy knocks on the sound room door and asks if there’s a problem with the microphone. I run a false diagnostic and assure him everything’s cool, handing him a backup battery “just in case.” My friend and I laugh about this for a good few minutes, and when I go to crank up his gain again…
Karma bites me in the ass. I somehow managed to bypass the slider and become one with the circuit, shocking the hell out of my arm. The mixing board remains functional to this day. My arm? Still twinges once in a while.
Been chewed a few times by supervisors etc and have worked alongside rude, nosey people. Mostly I don’t care. I look down on them anyhow - and I notice that whenever I see these ‘aggressive’ types in public, they are really meek and mild and won’t say boo to you.
I’ve had one boss hate me but he was something of a psychopath and that company had the biggest staff turnover of any company I have ever seen.
Everyone (who has ever worked alongside other people) can think of AT LEAST one person they’ve hated over their working careers. I find young girls in positions of power to be the worst people in the workplace. I’ve had some horrific encounters with bitches over the years. Total cuntfuck bitches.
I’ve been a temp worker before too - on and off - and temps seem to cop more than their fair share of shit.
Ah yeah I’ve been a temp before too. I used to work for one of Aus’ biggest Telco’s as a temp, didnt get treated THAT Badly personally, but the “real” employees didnt want much to do with us. They offered temps “real” jobs once, and wanted them to write like a 5 page essay on why they should be considered and how great they are etc. etc. etc…
Ridiculous, if the company has any “real” jobs going and they hire externally - all you do is the usual background check/STAR question interview, if you already work for them, but are a temp you have to write essays and tell them why you aren’t bottom feeding scum.
I find young girls in positions of power to be the worst people in the workplace. I’ve had some horrific encounters with bitches over the years. Total cuntfuck bitches.
This.
I’ve had plenty of experience working with bitchy types. One girl used to snarl at me (literally) whenever I would arrive at work first thing in the morning. They’re so rude these young girls these. Unnecessarily aggressive - will stop at nothing to destroy anyone they don’t like or anyone who gets in their way.
One young woman supervisor we had once actually said to one of my colleagues “I’m going to make it my business to make your life hell from now on”. Just because she didn’t like him.
this past school year we had a teacher slap the dog shit out of a 7th grader! right across the face! she got 2 days paid administrative leave and then it was swept under the carpet! she fucks everyone at that school girls teachers too! so I think that’s why everyone looked the otherway! Not me though I hate that bitch she tried to have me nixed the first year I was there cause I wouldn’t fuck her nasty pudgy, ugly, alcoholic ass!
of course that’s not what she told admin. she said something to the effect that because I was cocky that wasn’t a good role model for kids. admin considered listening to her for at least a year but then why my students scores trounced hers in state testing they left me alone!
Late,
grmpysmrf
smurf rules.
don’t want to be on the receiving line of that bitch slap.
schools are full of boring “educators”. king smurf apparently kills their mf-ing asses.
long live the king. (i sound like pee wee now)
I worked as a storyboard revisionist under a director who was certifiably crazy. Like bat shit crazy. At first I thought he was just eccentric but everyone at the studio quietly assured me he was genuinely insane. He would be giving you direction and then derail into completely non-sequitor fantasy stories (government conspiracies, moon landing conspiracies, spy stories etc). He also had a terrible temper (and seemed to loath me) which made the experience all the more fantastic. One time he was giving me directions when he just stopped and questioned in total seriousness “Have you ever been in a duel?”. When I replied “no” he looked annoyed and then derailed into some endless fantasy story about pistols at dawn in South America. I left the meeting with absolutely no idea of what he wanted me to do. Then he flipped out when I had to ask him again. Another time he detailed his exploits smuggling films in and out of Russia for the CIA while I was trying to make some deadline. To top it all off this chap seemed to have something against bathing and usually came with a terribly fragrant aroma. Good times!
nice to be in such good company.
To top it all off this chap seemed to have something against bathing and usually came with a terribly fragrant aroma.
Was he French?
the french don’t hold an exclusive license on the stench. much to my chagrin. my face is on the airport most wanted posters over there. keeps me from going.
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Nope, he was a native Californian as far I know. I think he didn’t bathe because he never stopped working. He always seemed to be in yesterday’s clothes. It was a bit like having the Mad Hatter as your boss (which sounds better than it actually is).
Accidently caused the discharge of a couple gallons of radioactive coolant when I was on a ship. Not such a big deal since that happens all the time but I did it by being careless.
THe Majority of our Oxygen comes from the ocean “little Accidents” such as that scare me WAAAAY more than the destruction of the rain forest!
Late,
grmpysmrf
It’s pretty disgusting what all ships discharge and throw overboard out at sea. We threw dead bodies overboard a couple of times… burials at sea. One time the casket didn’t sink. It floated like a boat. So, they got out the 50 cal and shot holes in it til it sunk. What a way to go!
Ain’t no one going to beat that story for “workplace disasters”.
The worst ground accidents I can think of are where three people asphyxiated in a confined space many many years ago and the three crew that burned to death in the ground test.
We’ve also lost 14 additional crew members in the air over the years.
carman and mooney, you got some crazy ass stories. me likey.
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