whats your most memorable moment from your working life?

One memorable moment for me was finally getting the balls to leave a company where my manager was a tyrant, picking on engineers on a daily basis and generally making everyone's life hell. I will always remember the meeting and handing him my resignation letter and telling him that I was leaving to join another company who where taking me on as a contractor and doubling my wages.
 
Having a dump in Ambramovich's toilet on a new yacht we were working on (when I worked for that company many moons ago).

That was quite funny. However having a ride in a Veyron and Zonda F around Monaco and watching the Monaco GP from a penthouse apartment. Still part of the yacht industry.

Those were the days. Don't miss them though. They were good experiences but wouldn't want to still be working in that industry.
 
Crew changing off a rig offshore Tunisia onto a support ship. Being hoisted up and dangled over the edge then just swaying there for what seemed for ages. I'm scared of heights. Only things to see was a pair of grinning Scotsmen playing let's see who can hold on the least in some bizarre game of chicken, the curvature of the earth and blue upon blue.. in all directions.
 
I worked for American Golf at 17. Started work at the Sunbury Cross store and was later asked to move the a new site at Camberley. Spent weeks with the Area Manager and Store Manage getting the store ready and busting my ass making sure it looked good.

First day sales were huge, broke all sorts of opening day records, had to have the local Police outside to direct traffic as it was that busy. I personally sold more than £4000 worth of Golfing shoes.

At the end of the week, Lee Westwood (big name golfer from the UK) who was sponsered by American Golf came into the store, so
Igned loads of autographs for the customers and then along with the Area Manager and Store Manager presented me with a bonus check of £1000 - my weekely wage before bonus was £200 and a weekend VIP pass to Wentworth for the upcoming World Match Play.

Took my dad who managed to meet all of his fave golfers and had a blast. I walked into Gary Lineker as I was too busy watching the golf, saod sorry to him and he stopped and had a chat woth us for about 5 mins.

Highlight was me slipping down the wet wooden steps of the practise range from top to bottom and stopping all the players who were hitting range balls as I made so much noise, Justin Rose (another big name Uk golfer), came over to the barrier and asked if I was ok, said apart from a hurt pride I was fine and he gave me some golf balls to make me feel better.

All in all that is my most memorable moment.

Oh met most of the royal family apart from the top 5. Which was cool but not all that memorbale.
 
Not memorable, but the days ive had working is where i currently working now, and realising that not all managers are *********, and they are able to treat employees with this thing called "respect". Makes a huge difference in my working day
 
When I was a team leader at Currys there was this really really retarded sales person there, who after months of the most shocking behaviour and performance, was to be fired. I had to sit I and record the meeting and the guy was so thick that as my manager laid out the grounds for his dismissal, I could see he just hadn't copped that he was getting sacked. I really hated him so I didn't feel bad, but I have not met a stupider person since. Now my "memorable days are just days when I make an exceptionably large sale and break my previous records (currently £13k in one pop) thankfully not at Currys anymore.
 
Working for one of the worlds largest asset management firms and taking a disposable bbq, shisha pipe and steak up to the roof and cooking it.

Least memorable, working in another finance firm with very very plush offices and going to the bathroom first thing in the morning only to be greeted with a massive crud in the sink which someone had then fapped over.
Think I reported that on here a few years ago.
 
Being the first Officer on scene at a Murder and arresting the Offender who had inflicted the single stab wound to the victims heart.
 
Andy90 said:
Being the first Officer on scene at a Murder and arresting the Offender who had inflicted the single stab wound to the victims heart.
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In those situations, does the Murderer ever 'accidentally' fall over once cuffed? I mean, I'd find it very difficult to not want to beat the living daylights out of them.
 
I used to run a hotel, one day we had a wedding on and all was going really well. It got to about five minutes before we were due to call the guests in for their meal. I popped in to the kitchen to check if the chef was ready (a mere formality, he's always ready). I find a drunk woman stood at the sink (she owns the worst hotel in the area, and was actually barred from all of our properties), the pot wash bless him going crazy trying to defrost burgers and sausages and make pulled pork (they were having an extensive American BBQ) and the Chef off his face on booze and god knows what else trying to stay standing, unable to even string two words let alone a sentence together. Que me having to call the company director to send out another chef from a site an hour a way. Kick our chef and his new drunk friend off site and begin cooking dinner myself.

I was going to inform the groom that chef had taken a turn and that their would be a slight delay but the director wouldn't let me and told me to let them know that an oven had gone down in the kitchen and thus we were slightly behind. The groom then finds one of his guests who happened to be a catering equipment engineer (can this day get any worse) so I have to say that its ok and is fixed now. Get back to the kitchen and carry on cooking, all the while getting my staff to give out god knows how much free booze. Once we had sent the food (what we could rescue, most of it having been annihilated by the chef). We were then behind time and had to spend the rest of the day apologising and catching up.

To top it all off, the chef didn't even get fired, he got moved to a different site on more pay! While I had to deal with the fall out and all of the complaints. Never again will I work in hospitality. It is a thankless task, and while hard-working and normally funny blokes chefs can be right self obsessed plonkers.
 
TaKeN said:
In those situations, does the Murderer ever 'accidentally' fall over once cuffed? I mean, I'd find it very difficult to not want to beat the living daylights out of them.
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Might be self defence, man slaughter? I guess you have to be a bit objective.... still:p
 
Surely it would have to be the 11th of September attacks for some of us guys here? It was a Tuesday afternoon. I was working in a library at the time, and the boss told everyone to go downstairs in the main concourse where they had 2 big TVs on showing the news. They initially said that it was some bombs that have gone off in NY. We didn't see the 1st tower being hit, but we were all down in time to see the 2nd tower being hit and it was in fact planes, not bombs. That atmosphere that day and for the rest of the week was quite different. Also quite memorable because it was my last couple of weeks of a placement year and that I was about to go back to university.
 
when videos and the likes started getting used on phones my friend had a porno vid i asked him to send me.. i got a notification on my phone and just clicked yes assuming he was sending me the vid via bluetooth but the notification was to go through my phone.. he downloaded a picture from my phone of my willy that id took the night before to send to someone, which then got sent to everyone that i work with as well as a few other people lol
 
Billie Piper touched me in a dark room.

...Seriously. She was in for a grading/editing session for Secret Diary of a Call Girl on which I was assisting. The Colourist finished for the day so I sat down to export all the relevant media the director wanted. She came back in to say goodbye and thanks to everyone and gave me a little mock shoulder rub as she did so. What a nice lady!
 
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