BevReview.com's Starbucks Contest: What's Your Story?
Oct 19th, 2009 by Steve
To change things up a bit, we thought it would be a good time to roll out a contest sponsored by a beverage company that isn't sending legal threats our way. (Yes, even we can laugh about the craziness of the past few weeks… we hope you can too!)
Win this Starbucks Prize Pack
The kind folks at Starbucks dropped me a line the other day and asked me to spread the word about a new website they just launched called EnergyPlusCoffee.com. What's it all about? Well, it's a website designed for you to be distracted and entertained, keeping you from doing work while you are actually at work. (Wait a minute… isn't that why you are visiting BevReview? Hmmm….)
It's actually a pretty clever idea in that it looks like a standard news site, but has embedded features that do cool things (besides doing this beverage review thing, my "day job" is working with Web development, so I appreciate this stuff… trust me!) Of interest is the "Boss Cam" that activates any internal webcams you might have on your computer, creating an electronic "mirror" that you can use to see if anyone is walking up behind you.
Visit EnergyPlusCoffee.com
There's also some humorous video situations presented via webisodes (if you remember Sierra Mist's Summer 2007 campaign for Lemon Squeeze, you'll get the idea). You'll also find some embedded Flash games such as a version of Tetris called "Meeting Blocks" and a Breakout-clone called "CellBreak".
So, I know what you are saying to yourself. "That's great, Steve. But what's in it for me? And how come Starbucks hasn't gone after you like the folks at Monster?" Well, I'll just answer that first question, thank you very much. (We'll leave the 2nd question for our crack legal folks!)
See, here's the idea… You are at work, yet who really wants to work? One way to stay awake during this whole process is by partaking of a Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee beverage (ah, see that product placement there… and we're not even as bad as The Jay Leno Show on NBC!) If you recall, we actually have reviewed all of the Doubleshot Energy+Coffee drinks before… and I actually found them to be pretty good. Of course, as I mentioned, I'm not a coffee drinker, so if they're pretty good to me, I'm assuming someone else just adores them! To recap the flavors:
- Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee Cinnamon Dulce
- Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee Cinnamon Mocha
- Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee Cinnamon Vanilla
- Starbucks Doubleshot Energy+Coffee Coffee
So, combine these drinks with EnergyPlusCoffee.com and you'll have a grand ole time!
But wait, what if you don't have any of these drinks? I'm glad you asked, because I'd like to hook you up.
Prizes
Starbucks has provided me with 5 Prize Packs to giveaway. And when you are in a recession, what's better than free stuff?
The Starbucks Prize Pack includes:
- Stealth Switch™
- $5 Starbucks® Card
- Starbucks Doubleshot® Energy+Coffee coupons
- Starbucks Doubleshot® Energy+Coffee-branded white board
The Prize Pack is valued at $30, which isn't too bad given that you pay nothing to read this website, right? Oh, and you may be wondering about that "Stealth Switch" thing. I was too. Officially, it's "the World's first desktop cloaking device. StealthSwitch™ uses patent pending technology to instantly and completely hide applications with a press of the footswitch. The applications are not just minimized, they are made invisible." Seriously, go check out their website. (Note that it only works on Windows machines. Mac folks like myself are kinda out of luck, but hey, think of the profits you could generate on eBay!)
So, I'd love to give you this stuff. But first you need to do something for me. Sounds fair, doesn't it? Let's get creative and go over the rules…
Contest Rules:
- Reply to this post
- Don't forget to include your e-mail address (which will be hidden) so you can be contacted should you win
- Share an idiot-story about someone you have worked with
- Obviously, you have, ahem, focused on work all the time, right? Others, not so much. So let the dirty laundry fly! Share the story of a coworker or boss that did something to just make your eyes roll. One story per post, please (which means you can share multiple stories, thus giving you multiple entries!)
- Entries are due by Tuesday, November 3 at midnight CST.
- Enter as many times as you'd like!
- 5 winners will be announced no later than November 5
- We'll be using a random selection model, however you can improve your chances by being creative in your storytelling!
- Contest limited to folks in the continental United States
Pretty easy, huh?
So, let's recap… new website to visit, opportunity to share funny work stories, and chance to win free Starbucks stuff. Sounds good!
Shameless Self Promotion
But wait, here's the plea from your humble little BevReview Editor. You see, the folks at Starbucks, they are kinda sneaky. Obviously, they want me to tell you about EnergyPlusCoffee.com and promote their energy drinks. But to sweeten the pot a bit, they've actually had the nerve to pit BevReview.com against other blogs in a blogger-vs-blogger contest to see who can get the most entries in our contests. (Those of you studying social media marketing, take note!)
So, for the 2 week period of the contest, the Contest Overlords at Starbucks will be watching the entries closely. Not only will they be providing you prizes for our contest, but they will also be awarding the Top 3 site owners with prizes as well based on contest volume. That probably doesn't mean as much to you, since you always have a chance to win. But as a person who runs these things, I always have to exempt myself from the prizes, so to get a chance to actually win something is rather cool. They're offering site owners the same Starbucks Prize Packs, along with a branded messenger bag and a pretty cool set of noise canceling headphones.
Care about the happiness and overall welfare of BevReview.com? Help us beat the pants off these other sites participating in the contest. Don't just do it for me. Do it for beverage-review-websites-that-always-feature-photos-of-trees everywhere! It's your duty (and thanks!)
The Fine Print
Believe it or not, sometimes review websites get into legal trouble. Thus, please pardon us while we rattle off this fine print that Starbucks asked us to post in regards to this contest:
- This promotion is solely sponsored by BevReview.com and has not been endorsed or approved by North American Coffee Partnership. By entering, you agree to look solely to Steve Tanner & BevReview.com for any claims in connection therewith, and not the North American Coffee Partnership.
- NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Subject to Contest guidelines. Open to U.S. residents only. Contest ends 11/3. Void where prohibited.
- Starbucks Doubleshot® Energy+Coffee sent me samples of the Doubleshot Energy+Coffee drinks and here's what I think. All the opinions expressed here are mine.
Ever work for those people who just don't "get it", no matter how hard you try? Everything you do is seen and taken completely out of context and has the opposite effect of what you intended?
At our place of employment, when a new employee started we did a mini-breakfast thing with donuts, fruit, juice, coffee - that sort of thing. It was usually at 10am. Well, on said morning I had a new employee starting and had everything in place. An email had gone out the night before to alert everyone in the 30+ office. At around 10am everyone gathered as responsible people who like to eat naturally would. However, the old VP coot was still in a closed-door meeting. I had a choice: should I a) interrupt the meeting so they could join us, or should I b) respect that they are a VP for a reason and have intelligence to watch the clock and prioritize what is important in their day and make priority for that? Well, I chose 'b', and until the very bitter end, I believe this event triggered my eventual departure because I "didn't work well with others and only thought about myself". :: Sigh ::
I work on the technology help desk at my place of business, providing phone support for employees. In our line of business, everyone uses a PC, everyday, and they all run on Windows. Still, I get those idiot phone calls where I have to ask, "Is it turned on?" and the customer goes "Oh, derp, that helps!"
Recently I had two mindbogglingly clueless customers. One I was directing to do a task for me and I said, "Go to your desktop." and he literally said, "Where's the desktop." This guy has been using a computer for years, and he's been through training! Ugh. Then even worse, I had someone else, who's also been here for years, say to me, "Where's the Start menu?" Some days I want to throw myself out the window…
Not that it would get me very far, I work on ground level.
Years ago I was at a company who had fallen on hard times. I was part of a team of 4-5 web designers. Since business was so slow, there would be times where we would not have much work to do. During one of these slow times, the CEO walked through our area and we all of course looked as busy as we possibly could.
Unfortunately, one of my co-workers proudly announced that she spend the day "organizing her fonts". Not a bright move. Withing a few weeks 3 people from our group were downsized (including me).
I recently worked with a guy who was a junior developer. It was his first job out of college and when he submitted his time sheet (we all have to keep track off the billable hours for clients we work on) he tracked 10 hours a week as "checking the facebooks". Needless to say he didn't last very long here.
What's the wise thing to do when you make a serious mistake on an order for an important customer who is purchasing from your major distributor? A: Admit your error and ask for help from your supervisor. B: Try to cover up the mistake by doing a secret conference call with the customer and distributor. Our CS rep chose option B, the customer refused to buy from us if they had to work with the rep, and she was fired. Thanks for playing!
Hey! Well I worked at a Sears Portrait Studio. This girl (she was other wise really cool) had the worst B.O. on the planet!! I mean seriously she smelled like my husband after a 12 hour shift-and this was at the start of the day! Her big ole butt always showed out of her pants when she was kneeling/bending down. Just gross. We even tried buying perfumes and lotions for her for our Christmas exchange. That made a bad combo smell!!! Well thanks for the contest!! Wish me luck!
I knew a girl at work who loved to skip out. Never show up somedays, show up late other days. so we took her off the schedule. Man did she turn cranky when she found out she had no hours that week. we were good friends but business came first because i was in a managerial position. It was like how hard is it to be on time or call us!?!?!?!
I'd love a Starbucks pack. Count me in.
My manager at my last job wasn't the smartest man in the world. He would leave for hours at a time and frequently took week-long trips, leaving me in charge of our 13 employees. Because of this, he gave me all of his passwords and account info for the computers.
I was checking his email for work items once when an email came in from one of the secretaries in our building. It was steamy, to say the least, and I stumbled upon a trail of emails that detailed a sordid affair over the past several weeks. I also stumbled upon several emails from his wife (oh, did I mention he was married?!) yelling and screaming at him and asking him to sign divorce papers.
The strange thing: he thought nobody knew anything. Even though he gave me complete access to his files, he had no clue. I never told anyone and he and the secretary got married a few months later…
Sheesh.
Alright, here goes…
There was this one guy that worked at our organization in charge of the facilities. Every time we forgot to clean up an area or put something away, instead of coming to us personally, he would send out a mass email to the entire organization (including our boss) about his complaint. Needless to say, he quickly became a non-favorite amongst the staff. It alwyas felt like he was tattling on us. Needless to say, he didn't last very long.
Not so much about a co-worker but still a real life incident. While prepping for a presentation for a few exec types, the presenter's aide needed assistance displaying his laptop on the room's projector. The basic tricks weren't working so I wanted to go to the Windows Display Control Panel to check on some things.
I minimized PowerPoint to reveal the desktop so I could right click to shortcut my way to the Display control panel. Lo and behold, the aide's laptop had a scantily clad female draped across his desktop background. And the image suddenly showed up on the main projector in front of the executive audience with the presenter standing front and center!
I quickly maximized PowerPoint again even though it was too late. The presenter simply mumbled something about the female being a very popular international actress.
Still makes me laugh when I think about this incident.
Oh well you want to know what goes on at my work? My boss flirts with all the young girls and mysteriously one of the young employees always goes out to lunch him or they hole up in his office for over an hour each day and he shuts the door and all you can hear is thumping and I honestly get annoyed when he yells at people for being "unprofessional" he should really look up the meaning of the word
Steve, I'm actually too lazy to write up a crazy work story, but suffice it to say I've worked for both dot com startups and in academia. Lots of crazies in both those realms!
By the way, in case the Starbucks honchos are reading this, when are you going to come out with a tasty cola/coffee fusion beverage? I know Coke tried it but it didn't seem to gain market traction. Your energy beverages are OK, but really, all I need is one of your hot brewed coffees and I'm good to go. Finally, I like your VIA instant coffees too. Kisses!
So one of my first jobs was at McDonalds. I usually worked the dinner shift, 5-11pm. After 9:00 things usually started to slow down, especially in the winter when the roads were bad. One day we were so slow that the manager decided that we needed to clean EVERYTHING. We had to move all of the prep tables and grills to clean behind them, sweep, mop and scrub the floors…………everything. One of my co-workers found a bun that had fallen behind one of the tables and had turned rock hard. What does one do with a rock hard hamburger bun? Exactly! Play Frisbee. We had been throwing back and forth for a while, the manager was in the freezer taking inventory, when we decided to play long range. We had made a few successful attempts from the front of the dining room all the way to the back of the kitchen when the manager stepped out of the freezer right into the flight path of the rock hard bun. A bloody nose, split lip, and an exploded case of milkshake mix later, we both got written up and were put on cleanup duty for 3 weeks.
Idoits I have worked with have unfortunately always worked for Non-for-Profits. The specific NFP will go nameless, but when people, or CEO's for that matter decide to not run things like a business, but rather bend over and take things just to "be Nice" and "not upset anyone"….it drives me nuts. It is OK to be NFP and still run your organization like a professional business.
A coworker started heating some wax on a hot plate in the lab. A while later, another coworker spotted it smoking, and removed the lid. As he removed the lid, it exploded. There are still stains on the wall and ceiling from the resulting fireball that shot out of the pan.
When recruiting senior college students to join our graduate program, we had a bunch of them visit for an interview. One fellow student went out and bought a bouquet of roses for each of the female recruits. Later he invited several to spend the night with him. Needless to say, he wasn't asked to help with recruiting again.
We had a coworker that was working full time at a client site. We got an email from his supervisor there wanting us to ask him to keep the noise of his and the odor and frequency of his flatulence down because it was disturbing the people around him.
I once worked at a company who had a lot of consultants. In fact I was one. There was one who always spoke loudly. And he wasn't always polite. You could hear him from several cubes away. I was amazed when the company actually hired him. Apparently he was real good at what he did.
This just cracked me up!
I work for a pretty large company, and a manager had some folks from auditing in our department to review some documentation. They asked her if she had a thumb-drive. The manager walked over to the supply closet and grabbed a handful of those rubber thumb things (used to flip through papers) and dumped them on the table saying "I only have size medium - that should fit you". The auditors were dumb-founded and we all laughed hysterically. They were looking for a USB-drive to transfer documents to, not a rubber thumb!
one day at work, i was interrupted by a loud knock on my office door. i looked up through the door window, when one of my coworkers barged in, clearly angry. she wanted to know if i knew of anyone using her office while she was on vacation. i was unaware of anyone using her office and told her so. naturally, i wanted to know what was wrong, so i asked. she proceeded to tell me that someone had used her office and that one of her plants was broken. someone had closed the blinds on her plant and did not leave a note to own up and say sorry. she apologized for accusing me and briskly walked out. i then heard a loud knock on the next door in the hallway. my coworker opened up a full investigation, interviewing all fellow employees, to find the culprit, of which i'm pretty sure she never found. she is now considered "the plant lady" amongst my friends.
I started a new job just 3 months after I got married. Once I had gotten to know the staff in the small office, I sent them all an email to my wedding website where there was a video of my wedding that people could watch if they were interested. One night, I was working late (around 7 or 8 pm) and all of a sudden, I heard the music from my wedding. A coworker was watching my wedding and when I came up to him, he commented that he really liked the wedding and had watched it several times. Soon, other coworkers started telling me that they could hear him playing my wedding video at various times throughout the day!!
Creepy!!!
Recently overheard in my venue of work:
Non-descript coworker (NDC): "So the last time I drank a Starbucks Doubleshot, I puked my brains out on the side of a Floridian thoroughfair."
Astonished subordinate (AS): "Whoa, that can't have been good."
NDC: "I was trying to stay awake on the road - drank three of 'em in a row on an empty stomach."
AS: "…"
NDC: "Yea, so…"
AS: "…"
NDC: "Get back to work."
Years ago I worked tech support for 911 systems across the country. Now you would think that a 911 dispatcher would know how to operate a phone. You know, pick up the call, talk to a person, place a call on hold, transfer a call, hang up a call….all of the normal everyday things a 911 dispatcher would do in a normal day.
This one particular dispatcher, in a fit of panic, called our support group yelling that she just lost a 911 call and did not know how to get it back. Now mayne she was new, maybe she was just flustered, but when I dialed into the system and grabbed control of her station…..voila, there was a call flashing (indicating it was placed on hold) on the 911 line….the same line that she had answered, placed on hold, and forgot about.
I got more of these too…..
Not all of the stories were the result of a "confused" dispatcher. One of my co-workers was having a difficult time dialing into a customer system one afternoon. Instead of dispatching a technician to assist with the issue he decided he would walk the 911 dispatcher through how to reset the modem.
You can imagine that 911 dispatchers go through extensive training. Learning how to work the phone system as well as the dispatch system (phone vs radio) as well as how to handle people and difficult situations, multi tasking and stress relief….but at no time would I expect them to go through technical training…not even the basics. Yet my co-worker began his attempt to walk this nice lady through resetting a modem. He described how it looked, what wires would be connected, where it would probably be located and what lights should be displaying if it was working correctly. I sat in awe as this went on for about 10 minutes. Then, and this is where I believe he may have lost his mind, he began to describe the sounds it would make. When she still did not get it, he proceeded to mimic the sounds it would make. So here is this technical guy, talking on the phone and making dial-up modem sounds…….every single person around him stopped, turned, and gaped in awe at this situation. To his defense, he was spot on in his sound effects.
Everyone has stress in their job. And during those times of the highest stress you often turn to humor to relieve it.
This is where some emails come in handy.
In our office there was this particular email that had gone through several iterations so to hide its true purpose….to turn up your volume all the way and yell "Hey everybody, I'm watching porn over here!!!"
I work in cubicle land with only half walls, so there is aboslutely no provacy around. So when this email went out, and someone actually opened it, it would be heard all across the floor.
So the email was sent. But it was accidentally sent to someones boss instead of a co-worker. This was the nicest man I had ever worked beside. I professed Christian, of high moral value that did everything by the book since his days in the military. An older man with granchildren's pictures strewn about hsi desk. A man who collected model trains and had an entire little town set up in his basement……yes, your picture perfect grandfather.
So you can imagine the surpirse from the floor when suddenly, out of no where, this loud vocie begins to proclaim that someone is watchin porn. His response…..how did you guys know?
The email was retired after that day
If you are going to lie on a time card, you should first and foremost make sure there is no way for anybody to question the time you put in. For example, if you claim 15 hours of overtime in one week, and the work you claimed as OT needed two other field techs to work at different sites\ but at the same time as you for proper trouble shooting……you should maybe make sure that the time you enter matches up pretty close with your co-workers…..instead of it being 14 hours different
Recently the upper management here at work is getting in on this whole "social media" "revolution" and all signed up for twitter accounts. Best tweet so far:
http://jdsharp.com/tweet.png
Nothing to see here move along…oh wait, now "social media" is part of the larger corporate strategy to engage and sell the customers. Just tag it #hotairballoons
Even a non technical person knows that a relay switch "switches" as part of its main function….heck, it says it in its name. So you have to wonder why a technical person would tape a relay switch to remain in the "open" position instead of replacing the unit with once from his truck….I mean switching is essential for the relay switch to keep its identity
A coworker told me to enjoy my time off and then emailed me a list of things to get done while I was gone.
I was asked to help on a project with a quick turnaround that required a flight and a meeting… The required urgent person to meet with won't be available for 2 months or more… That's Urgent!
So, while I was a college student, I worked in my college's admissions office as a campus tour guide and host to prospective students. One blustery fall afternoon, I was giving a tour to two guys, one was a 17-year-old senior in high school and the other was a "non-traditional" student (I pegged him at about 28). We're walking through campus and I am giving the spiel, and the conversation went something like this…
Catie: "On the right we have the library…"
Non-traditional student (NTS) interrupts: "So I hear you have to live in married housing to get anywhere on this campus."
Catie: "Ummm… Well, that's not exactly true, there are…"
NTS interrupts again: "So… what are you doing next year?"
Catie: ???
NTS runs in front of me, bends down on one knee: "Want to get married?"
Catie: ……
Awkward long silence as Catie and the 17-year-old look in horror and great amusment at each other.
Catie: "So… On the left we have the Chapel building…"
Tour continues in complete silence as rejected NTS hangs his head and 17-year-old boy tries not to laugh.
I'm pretty sure neither of them ended up coming to the college. None the less, I have a great story to tell about the first time I was ever proposed to. Makes for an interesting day at work!
PS I am the biggest Starbucks fan there is and would be ecstatic to win.
Shortly after my husband and I got married we got a new puppy and she was just too little to leave at home so I began bringing her into the office with me. As you know, once you start a habit like this, it is hard to break. Cali, our dog, became our office mascot and everyone loved her. She would quietly sleep in her dog bed in my office during most days and any time there was a visitor to our office, she was always the first to greet them at the door. Needless to say, she was loved by everyone.
One afternoon a lady from another office popped over to drop off some paperwork. Upon entering, Cali greeted her at the door. The woman, threw her papers up in the air and began shrieking frantically and running around the office. Cali, who thought she was playing with her, happily followed closely behind this strange and loud intruder. The faster the lady would run, the faster Cali would run…they ran round and round until the lady spotted our conference table which she was now running laps around with Cali in tow. Soon my office manager joined in the chase to try to calm our visitor…and of course I had to come along side of them too trying to calm my dog. It was quite a site. In the end, the lady stood shivering on a conference room chair as walked Cali(the 5 pound Yorkie) back to my office. Needless to say, we didn't hear from her again. We still laugh about that day and the extreme fear the lady had over the tiny little dog that worked in our office.
We use GChat around the office and use our status updates to let our co-workers know where we are at, but most of the time we just post stupid messages. Well, we had a guy join our staff who is a bit older and maybe not so hip with the times… so one Wednesday we talked into his office to find he had UrbanDictionary.com open, looking up the meaning of "Hump Day."
I had a boss who would "meet" with the client at 2 or 3 am via phone or online and by 9 am, the scope of a project could completely change and the entire team would be looking at each other thinking, "what the heck happened" between yesterday at 5 pm and now?
A co-worker of mine would often say"wake me up in 30 minutes" and then lay his head and arms down on the desk. I thought this was a bit strange but was happy to comply as it was lunch time and he always looked like he could use more sleep. As the days turned colder he took to taking naps in his large puffy gray coat which seemed to add a homeless looking element to the whole 'guy sleeping at his desk' thing. So it was no surprise when the official company memo came instructing that there was no longer to be any sleeping in the office. The considerate suggestion was added that "employees are free to sleep in their car".
Back in the days of slow internet connections a co-worker of mine who was already having trouble with spam opened a suspicious link. The page was slow to open and rather than waiting for he just went to lunch. While away one of the ladies in our office used his desk. On his return he was mortified to learn that his screen was filled with not-so-family-friendly content. He and the lady co-worker never did talk about it but we were fairly sure she never looked at him quite the same after that.
I work in the IT department at a company, and it is amazing how stupid people can be. I was not on a call, but heard the following occurr.
Someone on the phone. "Unplug the cable plugged into the middle jack, it will probably be yellow, but that doesn't matter just be sure to unplug the cable plugged into the middle slot…..Oh that didn't fix the problem I will have to send someone over to your desk".
Sometime later
Person comes back and says. "He didn't undo the cable in the middle slot because it wasn't yellow. Figured it only mattered if the cable was Yellow…." DUH
Well, I work in the restaurant industry so I get these a lot. Either from owner's who really have no reason to be running a restaurant or high school kids that work for me. We'll start their.
The other day I left the fryer basket down while I finished plating up a lunch for a waitress. She looked at me completely aghast and asked, "Don't you think you should take the basket out of the oil if there's nothiong in it?"
"Why?" I asked.
"Well, isn't that going to ruin the basket?" She's 13th in her class and a senior.
Over 20 years ago, I once took a job as a maintenance tech for a vacuum cleaner company which repaired all brands and models of vacuums. I did this with the understanding that I would receive training and support on the job. What I received was two weeks of tips and pointers and a lungful of second-hand smoke from the chain-smoking trainer, who then went on to a different job. After he left, I quickly realized I did not have the capacity to learn on my own all that was necessary to do the job well. So, I approached my boss and gave him notice that it was not working out and that he should find another person to do the job, since I was obviously not getting it. I submitted my resignation.
He begged me to stay, using phrases such as "don't quit on me now," and "I know you are struggling, but hang in there." Since I was young and a bit niave, I went against my better judgement and stuck it out. A few days later he came to my home on my day off and fired me. It would have saved him the extra gas had he simply accepted my original resignation.
My Husband and I worked at the same company but in different locations. Occasionally he would come to my office for meetings and such. On one such occasion he went to the bathroom. While standing doing his business the guy next to him, who worked in my department and we had…well run ins that tended to be brisk, asked him "Is your wife nice to you?" My Husband being a funny guy said "No but don't tell her or it will get me in trouble." Of course when Hubby relayed this to me he commented that it took all his willpower not to laugh and keep his business going in the right direction.
I've always wanted one of those foot switches, so to ge it with a prize pack like this would be cool.
Here's my idiot story: I was working at an ice cream shop some years back and we sold coffee as well. Well, I had never had an espresso at this point or made one, so when a man came in and asked for an espresso I was clueless. Long story short, I ended up brewing him a very large cup of straight espresso, no milk or anything. He looked at me like I was very stupid but I quickly learned how to make them.
i worked with a man who liked to stand with a shovel an awful lot, while i dug.
i could use a boost.
I worked with a supervisor who insisted our pay periods were bi-monthly. I politely corrected him and told him we were paid bi-weekly. He insisted he was wrong. I went to the bookshelf and get a dictionary and opened it. He flew into a rage and told me to put the book down "if I knew what was good for me".
Sadly, he never acknowledged he was wrong. He never apologized.
What's another name for a donkey?
I dont have a long story for I have been a dork myself and can get there fast. I once looked up taco bell under taco in the yellow pages and complained all day that such a big co wouldnt be listed
had a coworker who was huge. like over 300 lbs. and she complained about it but she ate out every single meal. sometimes even like 4 times a day!! and starbucks coffee on top of it!!! i may not be the same size i was in h.s. but i am still around 145 so not bad!!
used to have a crazy girl i worked with who told all these stories about her and he swinger husband. enough said.
haha worked for my grandpa's farm stand for a few summers. he is a funny old man. was @ the park and he gets on the monkey bars and loses his pants hahaha. but hey at least in his 60's he could still get up there and hold himself up!!!
I worked with a recent college graduate. He was cocky and thought he knew it all. We had a meeting with a customer and the new guy introduced himself and then mispronounced the customer's name. Needless to say not a good first impression. Instead of apologizing he kept being arrogant and continued on. The customer was not pleased and it was the last time this employee went to that customer's business.
I have a co-worker who is dumb as a box of rocks. She's worked there for a year and still asks basic, elementary questions about job duties daily. She drives me crazy!
I had a coworker who was not really an idiot; she was just a kind of offbeat person, not operating quite on the same wavelength as everyone else. This was proven when we first got a computer register system. Every time this girl touched it, the CPU shut down, went haywire and we were dead in the water. We had to ban the girl from going near it. Lord knows where she works now.
LOL, why did you bring this up? I am sitting here now just thinking of all the goofy people I have worked with. Once I was a restaurant manager and I had to fire a server for scratching her … ahem… behind, at a customer's table… in full view of the customer.
I once had a coworker who could not figure out how to work the coffee maker in the office. You would think it was rocket science or something. She would always ask "where do I put the water again" or she would forget to put a filter in, or forget to put the carafe back on. There would be a coffee emergency/mess in the break room at least once a week. It got to the point where the management had to have a talk with her and tell he she was banned from touching the new machine (they had replaced several others she destroyed). She was bawling after that, dithering about how she was just trying to be helpful. Actually she cried all the time too - couldn't take the slightest criticism without bursting into tears. I was SO happy to leave my job there, that lady drove me nuts.
I'm up for a contest!
In my line of work I often supervise groups of students involved in ministry projects. It is usually a one week program that ends in a special, formal presentation for parents and other friends and relatives. We often stay and live in churches or camps for the week. At one of these experiences we were getting ready to do the presentation and several of us were at the mirror in a church bathroom checking hair, shaving, etc. I had noticed that the young man next to me had his electric razor at his eyebrows. I asked him what he was doing and he said they looked bushy and he wanted to trim them. At that same moment he lost track of what he was doing and in one motion accidentally shaved the inside half of both of his eyebrows off! I tried to console him but I laughed my head off! He was a bit vain anyway…..
I worked as a corporate trainer for several years. I would often joke with my students that I had only two rules: no bleeding and no vomiting, since I am squeamish. One day I was conducting training in a room we affectionately referred to as 'the janitor's closet.' (It was pretty close quarters.) One of my three trainees looked a little peaked and asked to be excused. He came back a bit later looking pale. He asked to be excused again a few minutes later, saying he had been throwing up in the bathroom and had thrown up in the parking lot. I told him to go talk to his boss about taking a sick day. That same trainee later began constantly showing up late (sometimes as much as an hour late) with no explanation - just traipsing in. Took me a while to start piecing together that behavior with the stories he told about going out after work and having 10 -15 beers… Eventually his boss had enough of it and fired him.
I worked at a fast food restaurant in high school. One day a co-worker didn't show up for work. His sister tried to cover for him for a few days, but the arrest records in the newspaper don't lie. Note to stupid criminals: don't try to hang onto a job from jail. Especially if you have a boss who likes to read the entire newspaper.
I once saw a co-worker aske to go home for no real good reason, just because she did not want to be at work. The supervisor told her that he was sorry but because they were shor staffed already that he could not let her go unless she was sick…..long bit of silence later the supervisor walked away to go to a meeting. About an hour later the same supervisor came back to find the employee was not at her desk. Her computer was on and she was still logged into her phone, but she was not around. Not thinking much about it the supervisor walked away. About a half hour later the supervisor returned, but still no employee…….until he looked under her desk….where she was found in the fetal position crying. Still not sure why, but even then she was not allowed to go home.
If only she had told the supervisor she felt sick like he hinted at…..if only
Well, I've had quite a few idiot co-workers. Right up there is the guy that split the on-call schedule with me, then when it was his turn would call me to ask questions. Work would call him, ask him a question, he'd hang up and call me to get the answer. Hangup with me call work back with my/his answer. Yeah so much for "splitting" on-call duties.
This one is more sad that funny in some ways.
I once had a co-worker (in a different department) that would eat 2 full size Subway subs for dinner. He and his wife would eat dinner together.. get 4 foot longs. So needless to say, they were "bigger". One night I got a call that there was an issue at work with a bathroom being flooded out. Apparently the co-worker had sat down on the wall mounted toiled to do his duty and the toilet fell off the WALL!
Everyone I work with or have ever worked with is a complete and utter bonehead. Everything they do is dumb and I have to fix it. Every time. I can't complain though, at least I get paid pretty well. Oh, wait, no… I don't. My pay sucks. What the hell… thanks for making me feel like crap.
So my dad and I were working on a tractor on the farm. we were replacing a hydraulic hose. To get this hose off we had to take off several engine parts. After several hours of working, and getting behind on the things that needed to get done, we finally had the hose replaced. It was then that we realized we replaced the wrong hose. The hose that was broken only took about 10 minutes to fix.
My supervisor hired a real "genius" who had to be shown how to do just about everything that she had claimed experience in during her interview. She only lasted a few weeks and once she was gone and we were cleaning out her files, we made a really odd/hilarious discovery. We found stacks of letters that she had sent out (a copy of each was retained for our files) that had the company's letterhead (at the top) on one side and her typed letter on the back side. Apparently, she couldn't figure out how to properly load the letterhead into our printer and instead of trying to figure out how to do it and/or asking one of us, she just decided to send the letters out as-is.
I still laugh over it and in fact, kept a copy of one of the letters for humor's sake. Maybe you would have had to know her to really appreciate this ridiculousness, but then again, just try to picture this in your head! Imagine receiving a sheet of paper with letterhead at the top and it's otherwise blank….and flipping the page over to see a bizarre little letter (with tons of typos, etc. But that's other story!) LOL
One of my coworkers always locks his office door even when he just steps out for a minute.
I used to work for someone who was in a position to financially manage a small business, even though they could not grasp the concept of non revenue vs. revenue. They started a promotion for buy one, get one free on $25 gift certificates. Crazy enough. Obviously, people were buying these and just redeeming them right away. It would show up as the initial $25 gift certificate purchase and then the $50 in redeemed gift certificates for each transaction, give or take a little. Because of this, they insisted sales were great as roughly every $25 in sales showed up as $75 when the daily sales reports were printed. This lasted an entire month.
There was a girl I worked with that I felt like she got away with murder from our boss. Well I found out why when I had went into work one night to pick up some papers. I couldn't look him in the eyes for the next couple of months I worked there, He is married and has 3 kids.
We have an elevator in our church where a co-worker had just gotten back from eating Mexican food an rode the elevator up to the second floor. As he got off I noticed he was laughing a little but I had no idea and so I stepped onto the empty elevator now. The doors closed and I noticed a horrible smell of flatulence . Once the elevator got down to the main floor the door opens for me to only see my senior pastor standing there ready to get on.
I got off and he entered. The rest of the day he kept asking me if my stomach was alright?
My manager approved my vacation days but while on vacation I was asked to come in at 5 am for two days to assist with a project. I thought it was ridiculous considering I was unpaid for this extra time and no one even said thank you. Fun workplace eh?
In my retail days, I managed a number of cashiers exactly like this one:
A cashier calls me up to the registers in a panic. They just finished a cash transaction and accidentally entered the wrong amount given by the customer into the register. Let's say someone's total was $12.50, and they paid with a $20 bill. Well, the cashier entered $200 instead of $20. Not ONE person who panicked about that situation ever understood that, so long as they got the correct change from the actual amount given to them, the register would not be off. They were all convinced that the register would be off by $180. No amount of explaining could convince them that, so long as the end result was that $12.50 got added to the drawer, it would all even out.
My head still hurts thinking of it; it drives me absolutely insane when I encounter it as a customer!!
I had an idiot boss a few years ago who insisted he needed a new computer mouse 'cause his didn't work….yeah, it was upside-down!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Not my boss, but Hubby used to work for the oddest person.
He was the manager, and he was responsible for fixing broken machines. Except he did neither. The staff retaliated by gradually removing roughly $5,000 worth of tools from the "workshop" and hiding them inside machines. It was common to find a screwdriver in a back panel, or a wrench under a floor plate… and the manager never even seemed to notice his tools were growing legs!
At another of Hubby's jobs, he worked in retail. There was a big event all the stores were going to and would be selling company stock but not getting sales credit, which annoyed a few since the actual store would be closed and it'd screw their percentages.
The solution? Regular customers were sold gift vouchers, which they gleefully redeemed at the event. Store got the sales credit for the vouchers, and didn't have any outgoing stock that day. Percentages were awesome!
A co worker kept stinking up the place so a couple of us got together and bought a bottle of beano and left it on his desk.
Starbucks always has some good products besides their traditional coffee. I like how they think outside the pot.
I was working as an RN on the evening shift with an incredibly ancient, and yes, stupid nursing assistant. As I was standing at the elevator waiting to go to dinner, she comes SLOWLY MEANDERING up to me and says, "The guy in XX room doesn't look so good". I almost went ahead to dinner but decided….ehhhh….better check before I go. So I go to check and the guy is BLUE!!!!! I immediately started CPR and we did a full blown code blue on him, but needless to say he didn't live.
"Doesn't look so good"…..YA THINK SO?!?!?!?
What an idiot.
After working at my job for over a year, a new coworker was hired in my program. He had worked in another program at the same company, however, this was a completely different job. Instead of asking me lots of questions (which I was willing to answer because our boss worked at a different office and was often unavailable by phone) and really trying to learn the job, he sat in my office for over an hour telling me just how amazingly smart and talented he was. He spoke about how he could be making a ton of money on his own.
My boss signed him up for a conference that he was required to attend (I was also planning to attend and looking forward to it because it was excellent training in my field). However, he told me that he was not planning to attend the training and would be sending his sister to go in his place (he had a unique name that was interchangeable) to take notes for him. He wanted me to cover for him and lead my boss to believe that he was in attendance.
Are you kidding me? I promptly told him that I was uncomfortable with this and would not cover for him. He eventually decided to attend but left after lunch. Needless to say, my boss found out about it and he was fired a few short months later (for this and MANY other reasons).
This same coworker attended a school staffing on behalf of his child client. The parent told me several months later that he took up everyone's time at the staffing by telling them what a great asset he would be to their school if they hired him. He gave them his personal cell phone number and recommended that they contact him and hire him because they would not be able to provide quality services to their students without his help.
Oh and he contributed nothing to the actual meeting about the child's educational needs. I'm sure the school was jumping up and down to hire him!!!!
The worst is when a coworker tells you extremely personal stories…ones you wouldn't even share with close friends! It's so awkward. It's a perfect time for a coffee!
I had a boss who thought it was perfectly appropriate to stand behind me, tapping his foot while waiting for me to finish something. What kind of an idiot thinks that doing that is gonna make you go any faster! Grrrrrrr………….
Had a coworker, yakkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, who used to pick his nose and stick it under his desk, I know, nasty huh! Ti top it off, he was a brown nose and a lousy worker. He got paid to pick his nose alllllll day!
I once had a boss who managed millions of dollars in contracts and was the main escalation point for customer complaints. Yet he refused to know anything about the majority of his customers. Even when someone would beg him to sit down and get an understanding of what was going to be discussed in a particular customer meeting he refused. He refused up until five minutes before the meeting that is. And then would be angry at his employees when he was unprepared and looked foolish when the customer knew more than he did.
I had a co-worker that was late a lot of the time, took long breaks and spent a lot of time on the phone with her boyfriend. When she had her evaluation she was shocked and upset she didn't get high marks. She kept doing what she was doing and was fired a month later.
I just won a $25 Starbucks gift card. I will try everything and get back to you!
My boss approved my yearly budget when I was hired. When I went to find out when that budget took effect, I was told two things by the accountant that I wasn't told when I was hired:
1. "Your department is still $1,200 in the hole… you're going to have to make that up first."
…and,
2. "Whatever you propose as a budget, gets approved. Then, you figure out how you're going to raise that money!"
I worked with a lady about to retire who didn't care about quality of work anymore. She sat around polishing or filing her nails and pretending she didn't have the savvy to learn our new computer system. It was more than a bit annoying.
hmm a story huh? well I havent worked in two years, but I will never forget the time a coworker(someone I hated with a passion) got fired! She just had the crappiest work ethic always calling in just because. Well one day she pulled that crap and the boss said sorry you have to come in we are too short. When she arrived they took her keys and let her go. Everyone NEEDS a job but a ton dont WANT their jobs.
I LOVE STARBUCKS!
True work story: names have been changed.
Like millions of others, I was at work when it happened. I had, in fact, just sent a boatload of brochures, signs, and merchandise to the World Trade Center the previous week, in anticipation of a big women’s conference. Part of my job was to package all this stuff up and send it to various big events around the country, then call members in whatever city it was being held and gently browbeat them into voluntarily unpacking, displaying, selling, and repacking it.
At the same time, all three phone lines lit up. Dina, who was always flustered anyway, was trying to juggle them without cutting anyone off.
“Oh, my God, I heard it on the radio, and then turned on the tv. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.”
We all went downstairs where the television played, just in time to see the first tower disintegrate.
Beryl was sobbing and shaking, and Kay was rubbing her shoulders. Dina had simply dropped the phone receiver, and a disembodied voice was coming out of it. Another line kept ringing and ringing and ringing. Colleen’s mouth was hanging open and Harry was blowing his nose. Bethany and Nora, the data entry gals, had their arms around each other, and were weeping quietly. I’ve got to call the school, I thought, but my feet wouldn’t move. We all turned to Cindy Lou–the executive director–as she entered the room.
Cindy Lou paused for a moment to take in the second tower collapsing. She then turned her cool blue eyes to us.
“Well, back to work everyone. We’ve got a newsletter to get out.”
Huh?
“I have a feeling no one’s going to care about the newsletter this month, “ said Colleen, as the rest of us looked at each other in disbelief. God bless Colleen, she folded her arms as the tears ran down her cheeks and stayed put. Her stance said, “Try to make me.”
I remain convinced—eight years later—that the thing that upset Cindy Lou most about 9/11 was the total loss of all those brochures.
Since I've worked for the same organization for almost 30 years, I have quite a few. One of my favorites is my boss asking for my help in getting his computer to work, and after a minute or two of looking to see what might be wrong, I reached behind his desk and plugged his computer into the electrical socket.
I had a secretary back in the 1980s, who I told to back up her computer onto a floppy (we're talking a PC-XT, with 5.25" floppies). She did…and then made sure she could find it by attaching it to the file cabinet with a magnet.
Another co-worker couldn't figure out why his printer wasn't working, especially when he had just put in a new toner cartridge. What he didn't realize is when installing a new cartridge, the little strip on the cartridge needs to be pulled out in order for the printer to print.
One of our employees learned a special lesson on why you don't put nakey pictures of yourself on your work computer. In doing a computer check, I discovered that, at least, I had proof that he had zero body fat…though, that wasn't a way I really wanted to find out. It was so difficult to look him in the eye after that, and not start snickering.
I had an assistant manager that decided sending a 6 months pregnant woman (me) out to get carts in August in Phoenix, AZ while it was 115 degrees outside. The store manager was pissed to say the least and proceeded to rip him a new one for being incredibly stupid.
Thanks for the contest!
I was working at a fast food restaurant when a recently fired employee pulled into the driveway. The manager said that they did not want to have to deal with the person and told me to let them know that they needed to leave and not come back. It wasn't until after I had told the person to leave and basically had to push him out the door that I found out that he had become very upset when he was let go and had issued death threats to all of the employees and managers. Thanks for telling me guys!!
I worked with a loser who used to steal our tips. Yeah, cool, you know the type the non-caring *ssh*le who gets left the 2 cents then had the nerve to take our 10's and 20's.
She didn't last long, thankfully.
We had a boss that we suspected was an alcoholic. The problem was that she was a "mean" drunk and when she came to work hungover, we all had hell to pay that day. A few times she came into work in the exact same clothes she'd worn the day before all rumpled and reeking of liquor. Boy she was a treat those days!!!
I am in trouble, I am a small business owner-with only one employee, and that is me. Sometimes, my worst employee is so bad that she takes an extra long lunch , neglects to fill her gas tank and sometimes just wants to give up.
The following story happened to a Coworker of mine. He is on the sales team over the phones, selling tires to people who call. Of course that means he works on Commission.
One day a lady called in furious, the company had sent her tires for her car and told her they would fit, but the tires had 5 holes for lugs, but her care only had 4. The salemen spent 40 minutes listening to this and looking up every make and model possible that she could have, and ALL of them were 5 holes for lugs. And all this time he is loosing sales, and the lady is just going NUTS on the phone. Finally he had the light bulb go on. He asked the lady to go to car and see if there was a hubcap on her car. She said you are wasting my time but I will go look. There was. The salemen had her take off the hub cap with the FAKE lugs and low and behold there was a 5 lug tire underneith. She didn't even say SORRY she just said GOOD BYE.
CUSTOMERS!!!!!
Well I work in retail, right? right.
There was this one guy that was hired as cart attendant. We use walkie talkies at work to communicate, and one night he gets on the walkie and says "Do I have to bring all of these carts in or just some?"
One guy I worked with came to my department and asked me "Do we sell those things that babies drink out of?" lol!
I used to work in a fabric store and a coworker told me that she wanted to make a quilt. Well there are quite a few ways to make a quilt. Well she told me no, that's too much work. She says "Why cant I just sew two pieces of fabric together and stuff the inside?" I tried to be nice and tell her that that wasn't what a quilt was, they ways she was describing it sounded like she wanted to make a pillow. She just didn't get it. She would have been better off buying a quilt.
I had this friend at work and we had bought tickets to a concert a few weeks in advance. Well the day of the concert I saw her at work getting arrested for stealing from her register. Needless to say, we didn't make it to that concert. Maybe she needed money for snacks?
When I worked at a fabric store, this lady had brought a pizza for herself for lunch and a cake for the rest of us. This one guy went in the fridge and ate half of her pizza (which clearly had her name on it) and he at the top layer of the cake, not a piece of the cake, the top layer!
When I was working in video game development (a long time ago) we had a cow-orker that just seemed to be a little bit out of it. One day I asked him "Would you care for a donut?" He said yes and began to eat one and I turned around and said "What??!?! Is that how you care for things?!?!?!" He didn't understand. Just as I was to explain the 'joke' he got called to a meeting to show his game to the President and the company we licensed characters from. It was a popular 'cat' character and he was to do an educational game. After the meeting we never saw him again. I found out that he did a concentration game using the character and named it "Cats-tration"
I have this crazy coworker who sends out emails to the entire staff complaining about various things that happen in the office. They are always full of errors. Not minor errors–big errors that make you laugh and wonder how he can possibly think this is anything but garbage. How can you take an email like that seriously?
A former co-worker was asked to leave under dubious circumstances (essentially cheating on his partner with someone he supervised).
As well as finding filthy emails on his computer while clearing it, a few weeks after he left, he received mail. It had no return address on the envelope so we opened it to see if there was one inside. The contents? A catalogue of lingerie and sex toys that I'm assuming he wasn't planning on purchasing for his partner.
Who sends that to their work address?!
I had an assistant who dated one of our employees broke up&then took his cell phone during work hours&went through it….she was no longer my assistant
My husband and I are kidnapped over the weekend, at gunpoint, and forced to drive to another state with an ex-felon in our back seat.
Now, most of the staff I know, given the opportunity, would take a few 'sick day's after that. Not me. I return to work. I'm a real worker bee.
First thing out of my bosses' mouth when I tell her about my weekend?
"You aren't going to tell anyone about this, right?"
….
Argh.
i worked at a high call volume call center. we did emergency and non emergency calls. i had to train an older man to do the job. he just couldn't understand that we had to move fast!
Work stories. Where to start. Hospital stories usually involve hilarity of my days, gang patients trying to find each other on the unit, the patient that swallowed the key to his locked restraints, that patient that thought it was more convenient to pee in her garbage can than the bathroom….you know, the usual. I have some very funny stories, but most are only funny and socially/politically acceptable to those in the medical field.
Last week, however, something funny happened. We have dorm size refrigerators where we store "patient" food throughout my unit. Nurses and doctors scarf the occasional fruit punch or graham cracker. Days when we have peanutbutter are pretty special. However, there are also turkey sandwiches for our outpatients who come out of surgery starved and grumpy. I admit, I usually scarf half a sandwich on late nights when I am starved and grumpy.
My coworker who I will refer to as valleygirl, decided it would be a good idea to eat a stolen sandwich 1) in the middle of the unit, 2) at around 3pm, when at least one of our two managers are still roaming the unit. It's a generally bad idea. Not only because our hospital can get fined a large sum of money (somewhere in the $10,000 range) if someone is found eating in a patient care area, but also because she "stole" it. I mean, don't flaunt stolen food. Scarf it.
But the scenario played out and valleygirl got caught.
My manager hovered (truly, she is about 6'2) over my coworker at the main desk and said: "Valleygirl, where did you get that sandwich?"
Valleygirl: "Oh this sandwich? I brought it from home."
Manager: "Oh Valleygirl." (saddened expression of a disappointed mother, taps foot, shakes head).
Valleygirl: "Ok fine, I took it from the fridge."
Manager: "I'm disappointed in you, you shouldn't have lied to me"
For those lucky enough to be in the immediate audience, we replayed it in full action for those who weren't. Mainly because it was the most disciplinary action we had seen in months. And it involved a stolen sandwich. Not a false sick call, or inappropriate behavior, or poor skills, or "extra" long lunch breaks … no, it was all over a sandwich.
I was working at one of the big box stores, they were remolding the store so they sent to a warehouse were the craziest 2 months of my life. There was a guy there, who was not that smart. We were painting shelfs with spray paint, we were soposed to use 1 can per 10-12 shelfs. Well… he used 5 cans on 1 shelf. our "boss" did not not catch it and it went to the store. The store manager found it and wrote him up on the spot. That was only one of the idiotic things he did… more to come!
I once worked with this girl who after baking a batch of cupcakes couldn't figure out how to configure those newly baked cupcakes into the cupcake liners. She thought they were placed in them after baking!
There was this lady at the hospital who completely pissed off an old lady by talking down to her- it was kind of awesome tow itness.
So it was a couple of weeks later and the guy was "missing" lots of work. He was from a diffrent store, so he clocked into his store and came over to the warehouse. He had the vary "smart" idea to clock in at his store, and go home, and when he was soposed to clock out he goes back to his store and clocks out. It worked for the first couple of time, but all good things come to a end. The district manager came with both store managers and took him away. He was baned from the stores. In the end he left some of his stuff there(coat, box cutter) and he could not get it because he was not allowed back and no one knew were he lived.
I used to do field service work (to install, repair and modify) for a major company that makes electronic assembly equipment. I traveled all over North America doing this. Normally, a service call would start over the phone. I would try to fix it or get as far as I could troubleshooting on the phone before planning to travel to the customer site. Sometimes the most basic questions are misunderstood. A customers machine would not boot up the computer (PC) giving various unrelated errors. I asked if there was ANY device plugged in that is not an original part of the machine. He insured me nothing was. Off I fly to SD. I try to do a few things to no avail. My sin was I believed him. When I walked around the back of the machine I noticed a extra keyboard plugged into the rear controller. I said I thought you has no extra inputs plugged in. He said that had always been there and it worked. I unplugged it and the machine booted up just fine. 4 hour minimum @ $150 an hour. Not bad for 20 min of work.
Forgot one more story about him. we were eating lunch at this pizza party place, close to the job site, the food was ok, but they had gocarts, he wanted to race after eating, we had 1 hour to eat and get back. We started to head back, 10 min till we were soposed to be back. He runs over and gets into line for the carts. There was atleast 2 groups before him. I had no idea why there were so many people there in the middle of the day. He ended up racing, but he was over 30 min late. He got yelled at that day 2… i still wonder how he lasted that long.
Fantastic giveaway, thank you!
I used to work at a comedy club while going to college. That place attracted all kinds, lemme tell ya! Well, one day, I found out that one of my co-workers was coming to work…to color. She sat down with postcards we were using to invite people out to the club and she was being paid to color! She saw no problem with it, either.
I worked with someone that was very overweight. He thought it would be a good idea to keep his car trunk loaded with potato chips and diet soda to lose weight.
Big festival every year in town where we work. Everyone goes pretty much every night, small town big time you know?
Older guy actually has wis wife call in and say he is on his death bed, can't come in. So, yeah, whatever. He's sick, it happens.
That night, first night of the festival, who do we walk right into enjoying some awesome fair food? You guessed it, not so sicky.
You're 60 +, you didn't have to lie……….here's your sign.
I had a boss who was constantly sleeping and snoring loudly.
I still work wit this woman who has the worse stank about her. I have subletly asked her if she smells anything in the office but I guess she just doesn't get it. Sheesh!
Once at WalMart this young guy was caught masturbating in the stockroom. The person who walked and caght him had to be our prim and proper little ole lady who goes to Sunday School every Sunday. It was priceless to see the look on her face and how fast she moved. The guy got canned but he came back by to pick up jis last check.