Stupid things you've done at work

Few weeks ago I'd just trekked over to a data centre to change a CD, it was a good 15 min walk from where me and a colleague were so I called him, told him it was in and went for a smoke, got back about half hour later and he was having alsorts of problems, which we both spent a good few hours trying to sort out, even raised a support call. I nipped back over to the data centre to see if the console responded in the same way and checked the drive while I was in there - CD upside down.

Twice I've managed to do that now!



A guy I was working with the week before last told us how he'd accidentally changed every port on a pro-curve switch (and its backup) so that all the ports became management interfaces - he was only meant to do 1 port. Wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't have been the switch that nearly every robot, pc, and the remainder of the production line at the facility depended on. He was an external consultant at the time for a large company, the resulting down time cost his company a fortune for breaking their SLA.

He also told us how he got sent a lava lamp in one of those promo packs that Microsoft give out. He plugged it in his office - and was dead impressed at how bright it was, about 2 minutes later his office lost power. No drama, just his office as he looked out the door at all the other offices. About 2 mins later he was informed the data centre had a power problem - turned out his office was on the same rail as the datacentre (big webhost), luckily the failover to DR worked perfectly! (They mangaged to sue the Sparkies who'd done the Data Centre though)
 
teaboy5 said:
Well to be honest, i think you are no better than scum. Either do the deed your self or report their ass if they fire you over it
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thankyou fine sir, look, crap like that goes on in all shops, get used to it or don't buy it, when you work for crap jobs like that you kind of lose the ability to care what the oh so obnoxious customer thinks, says or does
 
bringerofdecay said:
thankyou fine sir, look, crap like that goes on in all shops, get used to it or don't buy it, when you work for crap jobs like that you kind of lose the ability to care what the oh so obnoxious customer thinks, says or does
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No one asked you to do the job in the first place. And yes, you should learn to do it right, the general public trust you with the food they buy.
 
bringerofdecay said:
miscellanious peices of fruit and my old friend the box crusher come to mind, that and my boss walking in on me on one of his extraordinarily in-frequent trips out of his 'office' (where i've seen him playing flash games, and eating easter eggs he hasn't paid for, but hey, my crushing fruit thats had to be taken of the shelves and cant be sold is far worse :p).

have also insulted my queer supervisor while he was standing behind me (rest of the week was not pleasent)

told a manager to **** off when i thought they were out of earshot, wrong :(

had a customer walk into me (after i'd already moved out of her way to let her pass), who promptly told me to "cut your ****ing hair", to which i replied "you're a rude ****", she said she wanted to speak to my manager, so i got him and she promptly walked off in a huff.

when i worked in the freezer section for some reason or another i was angry at something or someone and punched a stack of boxes, only to have the top two (aprx 40 litres of ice) fall straight on top of my head- cue mild concussion :(

thats about it :D (this is all in the same job, i'm surprised they haven't fired me yet :p)
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You sound utterly delightful.
 
teaboy5 said:
No one asked you to do the job in the first place. And yes, you should learn to do it right, the general public trust you with the food they buy.
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to be fair, i've never done somethimg like that, i wouldn't work on deli out of principle (vegi) i just know it has and does happen, so go get on your high horse somewhere else
 
A Woman where i work has a Gay son.

I have met her son and he's a nice guy. I talk to this woman quite a lot on quiet days at the office. Her son likes to drink a lot and we often hear some stories of him drinking a bit too much for his own good. One day at the office we got onto talking about her son and i said without thinking;

"So has Adam been on any more benders recently?" (Bender in my head at that split second meaning getting ******)

After i said that the whole office burst into laughter and cue me standing there a bit bemused, then a Joey from friends moment kicked in. I then cottoned onto what everyone was laughing at and cue me a little embarrassed!

Luckily i didn't offend.

Josh
 
At my work there's a glass door that has been covered with black material apart from an eye slit at the top so you can see if anyone is in there, I stood behind said door and said 'look at me I'm a Muslim', turns out the guy I said it too is very anti-racist, so glad he didn't report me, or maybe he did but my boss would have found it hilarious. :D

edit/ o yea just thought of another one, we had a load of cable reels lying around that no longer had cable on them so we raced them down the corridor like that clip from the Simpsons where Homer, Lenny and Carl are rolling on toxic barrels.
 
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Bloody hell, someone is getting their panties in a bunch. I no longer work there (thank god) but it was a usual thing for everyone. My tales were over 3.5 years so it's not like you did it all the time. Even my manager who had been there over 25 years did it, in fact, he was the one who told me to do it with stuff.

No it's not nice, but in all fairness we wouldn't do it with stuff like tuna, cod that is skinless but it isn't as bad with whole fish, still not an excuse but it happens everywhere!
 
I used to work in car rentals and I once rented out a softtop golf to a girl for erm... *cough* payment in kind (she was an air hostess though) ;)... I got found out though, but luckily wasn't sacked - although I did have a sideways move to a different position!
 
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