kmkd
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Post by kmkd on Jun 6, 2018 15:09:32 GMT -6
MH has tons of great stories. Once they responded to a stuck elevator on Mother’s Day. They got it opened and working and 3 women in there were wasted. They’d gotten open the wine they had with them and drank it all while they waited for the fire department.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 15:13:21 GMT -6
I, and my female coworkers, continue to be asked to take meeting minutes and “drive” (aka display, do live edits, etc) in meetings simply because we’re women..and as you know all admin tasks fall to the women folk because, boobs. So that’s fun. My area of practice has very few women and this happens to all of us. We had a large meeting with a bunch of other firms and I was the only female. So of course old dude says “hey privacy can you get me a cup of coffee” My boss said “your legs broken Bob?” I love him (in a completely platonic way). And haven’t been tasked with an admin task since
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Post by veganontuesdays on Jun 6, 2018 15:13:28 GMT -6
Ready for this doozey?
I was working as a hostess and 17 yrs old at the time. We had a full dining room and I hear a bunch of banging around and screaming coming from the kitchen. One of the cooks who was about 6'5 and 400lbs got into it with the 18 year old string bean dish washer. He picked him up by the neck and put him over the fryer. The dish washer was able to wrangle himself out and ran. The cook chased after him and slipped on a bucket of water they spilled during their rumble. He fell and broke his leg so bad that it later had to be amputated.
Fast forward TEN FUCKING YEARS.
I am watching the news and I recognize the guy they flash on the screen. That fucking cook was in trouble for military fraud. He had somehow fooled the government into thinking that he was retired military and lost his leg DURING ACTIVE DUTY. He had tags, documentation, active member of the VA, was receiving benefits and money, the whole 9. His wife had no idea and thought he legit lost his leg during duty. Her interview was her saying that she had no idea how he truly lost the leg and couldn't believe she had been lied to for so long.
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Post by frantastic on Jun 6, 2018 15:14:14 GMT -6
I've shared this here before.
I worked in a call center, and had a coworker who changed her pad at her desk. Which was in a shared cubicle.
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Post by frantastic on Jun 6, 2018 15:15:36 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 15:16:22 GMT -6
My office now is really great. Save the law clerk who needs to unclench. But we share a bathroom with other businesses in our building. One lady is constantly talking on her cell in the bathroom. Loudly. AND doesn’t wash her hands ever! The talking is annoying. The hand washing has led me to walking to the other building
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Post by veganontuesdays on Jun 6, 2018 15:16:41 GMT -6
I KNOW. It was my first ever 911 call. There were only 2 men working in the restaurant too and they were the ones fighting. I was like... oh perfect.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 15:20:12 GMT -6
I, and my female coworkers, continue to be asked to take meeting minutes and “drive” (aka display, do live edits, etc) in meetings simply because we’re women..and as you know all admin tasks fall to the women folk because, boobs. So that’s fun. My area of practice has very few women and this happens to all of us. We had a large meeting with a bunch of other firms and I was the only female. So of course old dude says “hey privacy can you get me a cup of coffee” My boss said “your legs broken Bob?” I love him (in a completely platonic way). And haven’t been tasked with an admin task since One of the usual suspects (a peer, not a superior) came into my office today and asked if I knew anything about the new safety guy because he couldn’t find his email address even in the public listing. He was literally waiting for me to reach out to our shared govt contact (who would have this information) for him to get the info. I said “have you reached out to Bob for the info” and it actually seemed like this was the first that idea had struck him. The men in my office are so.motherfucking.used to women doing things for them they actually can’t seem to do basic things on their own. It’s infuriating.
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Post by bakemyday on Jun 6, 2018 15:26:27 GMT -6
I've shared this here before. I worked in a call center, and had a coworker who changed her pad at her desk. Which was in a shared cubicle. Like the logistics of how... did she just drop trou and get half naked right there?
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Post by frantastic on Jun 6, 2018 15:29:17 GMT -6
I've shared this here before. I worked in a call center, and had a coworker who changed her pad at her desk. Which was in a shared cubicle. Like the logistics of how... did she just drop trou and get half naked right there? She had a skirt on.
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Post by bakemyday on Jun 6, 2018 15:29:56 GMT -6
Speaking of getting naked at work, I have a male coworker who apparently drops his pants to his ankles, uses both hands to lift his shirt to his chin, and uses the urinal that way. The other guys in our office say you never get used to walking into the restroom and seeing someone basically naked to take a piss.
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bobyn
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Post by bobyn on Jun 6, 2018 15:47:31 GMT -6
Speaking of getting naked at work, I have a male coworker who apparently drops his pants to his ankles, uses both hands to lift his shirt to his chin, and uses the urinal that way. The other guys in our office say you never get used to walking into the restroom and seeing someone basically naked to take a piss. Try as I might, I can’t find a gif of Kevin (from The Office) saying “The problem isn’t going to the bathroom, it’s getting my tie back on.”
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thatgolfb
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Post by thatgolfb on Jun 6, 2018 15:50:22 GMT -6
MH has tons of great stories. Once they responded to a stuck elevator on Mother’s Day. They got it opened and working and 3 women in there were wasted. They’d gotten open the wine they had with them and drank it all while they waited for the fire department. I cannot say for certain I would not do this. (I would absolutely do this.)
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Post by helenahhandbasket on Jun 6, 2018 15:56:18 GMT -6
I've shared this here before. I worked in a call center, and had a coworker who changed her pad at her desk. Which was in a shared cubicle. My word.
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Post by mothafuckinteatime on Jun 6, 2018 15:57:46 GMT -6
My industry is pretty sexist as a whole.
This week another (male) PM was “sweet talking” me, trying to get me to sway and let him use the technical detailer I had booked so he could get a head start. When I said no he took a more authoritative approach.
I looked at him blankly and said, “I don’t work for you. I need this time for my project and that’s the only bottom line I’m concerned with. Figure your own stuff out without me.”
He was stunned.
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Post by mothafuckinteatime on Jun 6, 2018 16:01:07 GMT -6
I also had a grown man scream in my face on a job site because he didn’t like me pulling rank on him (I’m the PM, he’s the site lead). He told me he might as well pack his stuff and leave. I told him to get on with it.
He met me at the job site the next morning hat in hand and apologized.
6 years in the navy did not make me one who waffles at a screaming man. You get, at most, an eyebrow raise from me and then a stone cold bitch.
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Post by 4PrivetDrive on Jun 6, 2018 16:01:26 GMT -6
I had a coworker who used to floss her teeth at her desk. In our open office. Our old counselor would carry around one of those flosser picks in her mouth and just let it dangle there while she was talking to you. Then she’d always leave them somewhere instead of throwing them away. So gross.
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Post by mothafuckinteatime on Jun 6, 2018 16:01:55 GMT -6
I then got to fire yelling prick off my next job. So that was a fun bit of redemption.
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Post by shitsngiggles on Jun 6, 2018 16:25:11 GMT -6
When I was pregnant with DS1 I had a job where I was tied to a phone. The only ladies room on our floor was at the complete other end and very small so it was always crowded. I was reprimanded for going to the restroom between my scheduled breaks. I asked for a bucket and told my supervisor I would pee at my desk or we could have a conversation with HR. She backed off. I wasn't even going to the restroom excessively, but at 9 months pregnant sometimes you gotta go.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 16:40:20 GMT -6
Once I had to tell this lady she couldn’t wear Jack rogers sandals at work because it was in the dress code. She got so pissed and yelled at me that I didn’t have or understand style. I should have laughed but I was on a bunch of IVF meds so I went to the bathroom and cried. 🤦🏻♀️
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elle
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Post by elle on Jun 6, 2018 16:56:57 GMT -6
MH has tons of great stories. Once they responded to a stuck elevator on Mother’s Day. They got it opened and working and 3 women in there were wasted. They’d gotten open the wine they had with them and drank it all while they waited for the fire department. Is it bad that my first reaction was surprise that 3 women got drunk off of one bottle of wine? 😬
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kmkd
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Post by kmkd on Jun 6, 2018 17:00:00 GMT -6
MH has tons of great stories. Once they responded to a stuck elevator on Mother’s Day. They got it opened and working and 3 women in there were wasted. They’d gotten open the wine they had with them and drank it all while they waited for the fire department. Is it bad that my first reaction was surprise that 3 women for drunk off of one bottle of wine? 😬 I don’t think it was one bottle, otherwise I’d be with you.
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Post by elle on Jun 6, 2018 17:02:08 GMT -6
Is it bad that my first reaction was surprise that 3 women got drunk off of one bottle of wine? 😬 I don’t think it was one bottle, otherwise I’d be with you. Ah ok, that makes more sense then. 🍷
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Post by goldenbird on Jun 6, 2018 17:15:42 GMT -6
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Post by sherminator on Jun 6, 2018 18:26:09 GMT -6
I worked at psychiatric hospital for many years, so have seen a lot of wild things from both staff and patients. I've told this story before but I had a co-worker when I was in college write a sex story using my name and the name of another coworker (my name is fairly uncommon). Both me and the male coworker in the story had started at the job a few weeks before, and the characters were basically descriptions of us. The best part was when she sat down across for me and gave it to me to read, then asked "so what did you think?" afterwards. This story then went up on her myspace page. This same coworker also wrote a guide for performing oral sex on women and saved it on out work computer, and it was found by our manager years later when they updated all the computers (but coworker was long gone by then). People were caught having sex on the unit (right before I started but it was a huge deal). We had a pt who bit their own tongue off and would spit pieces at staff. A pt on another floor while I was there ripped out their eyeballs. This is just the tip of the iceberg- lots of gross and sad things. meggriffin I had friend who ordered Chinese food, and ate half and left the other half with his name on it for the next day. He came in the next day and someone had eaten all the chicken out of his half-eaten chicken and broccoli and left the rice and veggies. Wesley- we should both be writing books-20 years state prison/juv detention/psych hosp. so many things... but HIH was up in arms when I casually mentioned.... theres only one finger nail clippers in the Capt. Office and all of us use the same clipper.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 18:27:31 GMT -6
PDQ
Oh, yeah. Then there was the time the crazy right winger who sits next to me was going OFF about David Hogg (Parkland shooting survivor) literally standing up YELLING that he deserves to be bullied, he’s a fucking fraud, he’s a piece of shit, he needs to learn to keep his mouth shut. This was *after* the woman who sits behind me kindly explained that David is actually her literal cousin and that the hurtful stuff being said about him in the media really bothers her. I laid into him so hard (mostly about how inappropriate the convo even was for our workplace, but also to stop talking about a child the way he was, and most importantly that he had just been told by someone who he is friendly with that she is hurt by those things). He packed his things and left and shouted some shit about needing to find a new job.
He was back the next day with an apology and he hasn’t raised his voice since. Working with Marines has desensitized me to a lot of words/phrases/actions but the one thing I do not tolerate in the workplace is yelling (not to mention purposely trying to hurt coworkers).
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Post by Bluebird on Jun 6, 2018 18:32:46 GMT -6
I worked at a Hallmark in high school back when Beanie Babies were huge things, and we had a purchase limit for certain types. One woman freaked out about this and started throwing the Beanie Babies at us and knocking over displays and we had to call the cops to remove her.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 18:41:02 GMT -6
Man, some of you work with some nasty individuals.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 18:42:40 GMT -6
The funniest thing I can think of is a coworker who would eat the exact same kind of frozen burrito for lunch every single day. We teased him a bit for that.
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Post by goldenbird on Jun 6, 2018 18:45:08 GMT -6
I worked at a Hallmark in high school back when Beanie Babies were huge things, and we had a purchase limit for certain types. One woman freaked out about this and started throwing the Beanie Babies at us and knocking over displays and we had to call the cops to remove her. This has me laughing 😂
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