Strange or funny things which happened in work

[tommytowne]

Yes I read your story in the News of the World LOL......

I made my excuses and left.

 

[degsy]

The foreman used to change his safety boots in his office and go home in his proper shoes, once every 3 weeks when he was on nights this guy used to piss in his boots, swill it round, tip it away and put them back under his desk

 

[The binman chronicles]

but he didn`t and I just quietly closed the door and let them carry, making myself scarce in the process.

I would have pulled up a chair saying don't mind me, then proceed to critique their technique harshly.

 

[Leylo]

Was building a wall one day outside a house, was using a small cement mixer .while the mortar was mixing I put black dye into the mix, carrying on building the wall a woman walks past dressed in white looking like she was going for a drink, the mix in the mixer splashed ,oh wow all over her she looked like a dalmatian . How I never got my head kicked in is a miracle lol

 

[degsy]

We took the bosses one wheel trim off his car and put tiny pebbles behind it when we put it back on.

He took the car to the garage and everything to try and get it sorted.

It drove him almost insane.

Roly, who had a very short fuse, bought a new car...Rav 4 iirc, every so often Jimmy Witherspoon, (aka Jimmy the Spoon or just The Spoon, as in...have you seen The Spoon).
Every week he would put some oil under his engine.
Roly spent months taking it back to the dealers and playing 'k with them
Until he came out to the carpark to get something out of his car and caught The Spoon on his hands and knees pouring oil under his engine.
He legged him all round the car park and the factory and nearly caught Jim, who had trouble runnjng for laughing...never spoke to him for about 18mths

 

[cronullasharks]

Lad I used to work with years ago used to wind up an older fella who was probably the foulest tempered person I've ever met by taking bites out of whatever food was in his lunchbox. He'd get his sandwiches or apple etc out and see a chunk bitten and just go ballistic.

 

[Methuselah]

After my demob from the Army in 1957, I started work for a firm in Leeds. Our manager was a bit of a stickler and would walk round the office several times during the day, making sure that people were working hard. I played football in the Yorkshire League and played in an FA Cup qualifying round against Farsley Celtic on the Saturday. We drew 0 - 0 and the replay was at Farsley on the following Wednesday. The offices I worked in were only half-a-mile from Farsley's ground. I had to ask for time off and other workers in the office reckoned I wouldn't get it. However, I knew that the manager was a season ticket holder at Leeds United so didn't think there would be a problem. The office hours were 8.30 am to 6.00 pm with 45 minutes for lunch, Monday - Friday. I went to see the manager and he said he would think about it. He called me into his office and said I could have the time off but there were two conditions. 1. I would have to work Saturday morning, without pay, to compensate. 2. He then produced a piece of paper on which he had worked out, based on a 2 o'clock kick-off, what time I should be able to get back to the office. As it turned out, he was only a few minutes out! So I still had an hour and a half to work that day.
We won the replay 2 - 0 and I had the consolation of being nominated 'man of the match' in the Yorkshire Post report on the game.

 

[royalblue66]

We were playing Man U at Old Trafford,on my way to the game a fella asked me
are you going to the game ? anyway he offered me a ticket, said it was free, as he had
a family problem,didn’t want it to go to waste, turned out it was in the boss seats, and sitting next to me was Lulu and with her was the Bee Gee fella, she was wearing a white mini skirt and I had to stand to let her pass, I had gone from work and had oily
Jeans on, the state of her skirt, I didn’t ask for autographs.

 

[xena]

Late one night, whlist working nights over the Christmas period, I came back into the office to hear strange noises coming from the bosses office two doors down.

When I opened the door to see what was going on, there was the boss, totally bladdered , with one of the girls from the office spreadeagled on his desk, him with his keks around his ankles. She saw me, but he didn`t and I just quietly closed the door and let them carry, making myself scarce in the process.

I never said anything to anyone, but a good while later, he came up to me and thanked me for my discretion and told me he wouldn`t forget it.

He was a decent fella and the girl he was with was a top girl too, so it wasn`t really that difficult to keep quiet tbh.

I'd have asked for a raise.

Id have got one .

 

[Devanski]

We were playing Man U at Old Trafford,on my way to the game a fella asked me
are you going to the game ? anyway he offered me a ticket, said it was free, as he had
a family problem,didn’t want it to go to waste, turned out it was in the boss seats, and sitting next to me was Lulu and with her was the Bee Gee fella, she was wearing a white mini skirt and I had to stand to let her pass, I had gone from work and had oily
Jeans on, the state of her skirt, I didn’t ask for autographs.

She had to go straight to her tv show after the game.

 

[davids]

Lad I worked with ( Kopite) had extreme OCD the last fifteen minutes of every day straightening everything in all the draws of his desk. If we lost a game they were usually tipped on the floor before he'd started his car.

 

[witchdoc187]

Years ago in the school holidays I worked at a nursery picking flowers. Only went there to stare at this beautiful girl's jugs. Anyway, met this guy who had just got out of jail. He used to go home to smoke bongs at lunchtime. One day he didn't come back and nobody knew where he was. Later that afternoon as I was picking my way through the greenhouse, I saw a trainer, then gradually saw the rest of his body. He was laying in a star shape at the end of the greenhouse hidden by the flowers he hadn't squashed. I tried to wake him up but couldn't, so basically a few of us had to drag him out by his ankles through the greenhouse. Think he had just smoked too much. People in the print room in a CD factory I used to work at took acid and pills in the night shift.

 

[random]

Late one night, whlist working nights over the Christmas period, I came back into the office to hear strange noises coming from the bosses office two doors down.

When I opened the door to see what was going on, there was the boss, totally bladdered , with one of the girls from the office spreadeagled on his desk, him with his keks around his ankles. She saw me, but he didn`t and I just quietly closed the door and let them carry, making myself scarce in the process.

I never said anything to anyone, but a good while later, he came up to me and thanked me for my discretion and told me he wouldn`t forget it.

He was a decent fella and the girl he was with was a top girl too, so it wasn`t really that difficult to keep quiet tbh.

Keep thinking of an episode from The Wire when I read this lol

 

[witchdoc187]

I remember working in a CD packing factory. I was sent to go and get a pallet of cd cases. I was so stoned I put the pallet truck on the bottom pallet of a stack of 4/5 pallets and started pumping it up. I suddenly noticed this tower of pallets swaying above me and just managed to move away as they all came crashing down and smashed everywhere. No idea how many people walked past me and saw me doing it. Even the owner of the factory was drunk. They were pretty good days in hindsight

 

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Keep thinking of an episode from The Wire when I read this lol

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Same. It worked out for Herc too