So, today, I got in trouble (the janitor complained to administration) because one of my runners, after icing her ankle, dumped the ice in the bathroom sink. That's right. She dumped the ice cubes in the sink! The horror! The horror!
So, today, I got in trouble (the janitor complained to administration) because one of my runners, after icing her ankle, dumped the ice in the bathroom sink. That's right. She dumped the ice cubes in the sink! The horror! The horror!
I used to work at a call center, and I used to fart like CRAZY for literally about 8 hours straight for a period of a few months when I was going overboard on the fiber. People actually complained to my supervisor -- no I'm not making this up.
gegergeegre wrote:
I used to work at a call center, and I used to fart like CRAZY for literally about 8 hours straight for a period of a few months when I was going overboard on the fiber. People actually complained to my supervisor -- no I'm not making this up.
Sounds like you need a buttplug.
C'Mon, Really!?! wrote:
So, today, I got in trouble (the janitor complained to administration) because one of my runners, after icing her ankle, dumped the ice in the bathroom sink. That's right. She dumped the ice cubes in the sink! The horror! The horror!
What kind of job do you have where one of "your" runners is icing at work? I assume it's not a coaching job or icing would be normal.
A company I worked for had a retail division and they used to send out sting operations to see if the clerks were smiling. If a clerk had an encounter with a stinger and failed to smile they would be disciplined.
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First job was in a factory and a guy was given a warning for whistling
No, I'm a high school teacher & XC coach. It happened at practice. So, it was a student-athlete & our athletic trainer gave her the ice!
I got a warning as a work-study student in the university library for reshelving books too slowly. The task was to take the returned books, maybe 100-150 at a time, back up into the stacks and file them back where they belong. I ended up having a meeting with the library director and my supervisor. It was very grave and serious. You'd think I tried to bomb the library or something. It was hard not to laugh.
Saving the world
Going to lunch.
No lie. I went to lunch for an hour on a Friday when we had no project work going on and I returned to a very stern lecture from my boss about "leaving things unattended". I worked 12-14 hours a day, plus many, MANY weekends and he flipped out when I took ONE lunch break in over 3 months. I no longer work there.
said the word BALLIN in a corporate environment
I worked at a Chicago-area nursery (Red's in Northbrook) loading plants and bags of mulch onto landscapers' trucks and into people's cars. So I was outdoors all day. One day, it started pouring rain so I poked three holes in a black garbage bag as a makeshift raincoat and continued working outside. I got reprimanded for wasting $. The boss said "if everyone did this every time it rained, do you know how much it would cost each year? Buy yourself a raincoat." He had a point, but still. C'mon.
C'Mon, Really!?! wrote:
So, today, I got in trouble (the janitor complained to administration) because one of my runners, after icing her ankle, dumped the ice in the bathroom sink. That's right. She dumped the ice cubes in the sink! The horror! The horror!
Why did the janitor complain about that? Where should the ice cubs go? That is pretty weird. How did you get into "trouble"? Where did the administration suggest she put ice cubs in the future? This is weird.
I used to work at a Running Room in Vancouver. I imagine it's still the same, but at that point the Stanton family were a bunch of overzealous, disrespectful control freaks. I had advance warning that the big man, John Stanton, was coming to town and changed the outdoor sign to read, "Vancouver Welcomes John Stanton." The regional supervisor just about pulled his hair out when he saw it. Shortly thereafter I was no longer working for them.
I had sex with the cleaning lady. Was that wrong?
I used to work for an appliance store, and the owner had a weird thing about cookies. There was always supposed to be water, coffee, and fresh cookies (baked in one of the display ovens) set out for the customers. He would sit up in his perch and stare down at the floor, and if the cookies got too low he would send his lackey down to reprimand us. He came onto the floor one day during a very busy sale and yelled at me because the water and cookies were running low. So I sent someone off the floor to refill the water and bake more cookies. Then he yelled at me for letting someone leave the floor when there were so many customers waiting. I'm not sure how else he thought the cookies were going to get made. Another woman there actually got fired over the cookies.
George Costanza wrote:
I had sex with the cleaning lady. Was that wrong?
Well played!
I got in trouble for catching two of my students cheating on an assignment.
I used to work at a municipal park. One of our jobs was to go around the park (about 500 acres total) in our big pickup truck and empty trash cans at the baseball fields, then take the trash to a dumpster. Well, one day some jerk parked in front of our dumpster, so we couldn't dump our trash. There was an official "no parking" sign there, so we thought that he deserved a parking ticket. We went back to our office and got some official municipal stationary, wrote him a ticket for $150 and stuck it on his car. The guy called the police, who laughed at him, then the mayor! The entire town work force heard about it and found it quite humorous. We got a stern talking to but no one got fired.