another worker fell over and hit his head on the concrete behind me. while I was checking his pulse, he died. creepiest day ever. and the only thing the company did was take a long lunch due to the EMTs in the work area.

I trained a serial killer. Hang on, I’ll link to another comment I made regarding that…

EDIT, found it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/3725228

Another edit, just to clarify: I trained him at the job, not the killing part

Construction company we made a few foundation pads and the supervisor who was an asshole, came to check the electrical installation conduit, so he pulls his plan and goes to one conduit end that is supposed to go all the way to the other side, so he yells at one of the workers to blow on the other conduit and wants to listen for air coming out on his end.

Guy on the other end blows, nothing happens on this side, the asshole supervisor yells “Blow Harder” so the construction worker obeys and gives a big strong blow on his end. Well nobody saw this coming, someone had urinated in the pipe so all pee comes out and squirts his face in front of everybody.

Since we hated him we were all laughing our souls out of our bodies. :) The supervisor, didn’t say a word and walked away furious.

Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.

Well she didn’t put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.

Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.

The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.

I caused the loss of multiple millions of dollars in stock of one of the largest manufacturering companies in the world. All because I listened to my boss instead of my instincts. I got fired because the senior foreman “couldn’t stand to look at my face”

I used to work at a ski resort. The snowmaking system has guns that plug into pedestals that operate at 3 phase 480vac. One night, one of the groomers dropped the grooming tiller blades right onto a pedestal and mangled/shredded the crap out of it. This did not blow the 350a breaker, and it was still arcing the next day.

A startup I worked at got acquired, and we went to the parent company Christmas party. We used to go to the local market and get drunk, and this place booked an entire posh hotel with a free bar…so a slight difference.

Anyway, we spoke to a few random people, and ended up meeting one guy who was on his own. He had a few drinks with us, and told us that he’d been with the company for about 8 years as a software engineer.

The crazy part is that he was “unassigned” to a team. He had a manager at director level that worked from another country, who had never had a 1:1 with him and was chasing a VP promotion, but he was a team of one with no direct work. He did about a year of actual work, but got moved teams and no one in HR cared.

Over time, he learned that his only expectation was to go into the office, and to have a yearly review with his director - always cancelled. He came in every day, sat in an empty marketing suite, and played Unreal Tournament. He’d occasionally do his own work, and occasionally help others in the company out if someone needed help (usually helping some marketing person with something stupid like email campaigns), but other than that he’d been there for years, doing nothing, and getting paid well.

I can’t remember his name, and have tried to find him on LinkedIn to see if he’s still there (although not sure he’d have a LinkedIn if he were getting paid for nothing). The company is in insurance, and is a big enough name that he’d probably have a job for life if he could keep the charade up.

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A guy who worked in one of our data centers was arrested for stealing passwords to a website but he was also providing free tech support to islamic extremists. He went to jail for like 3 years and then went to Egypt and hopped around from there. Eventually he became a high ranking member of the Islamic State. He was called Jihad John back in the DC days and it turns out that was more accurate than anyone realized

Someone quit by taking a shit on the floor, right out in the open. Fortunately not near where I was, but I commend them for doing what many probably wished about.

I had to unload a loaded pistol that we found in one of our boxes of potatoes.

Apparently we had to get potatoes from our sister store across town and the GM there had a ccw that he normally kept in his car. But this particular day his car was getting detailed so he brought it into the store and put it in a random box.

That one guy took responsibility for their own fuckup.
I’m sorry, I’m pulling your leg here, we all know this is too crazy to happen.

People in my workplace fight all the time, to the point where I’ve had to be evacuated while they settle things in there. One day, one of the workers was diagnosed with seizures and stopped being toxic to me, saying he needed help coping with having such a job with seizures as well as keeping it a secret he has seizures now so he doesn’t get replaced. Real question for anyone reading this, what would you do in such a situation?

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