The most shocking thing you've witnessed at your workplace?

Muckit

LH Pathe wrote: »

A man.. caught his arm in the machinery as i was tryin to catch his attention; shorn clean off.. I didn't eat for weeks after that.

That's why you should never disturb anyone working a machine until the operator has stopped it.

Big Nasty

thefishone wrote: »

Years ago at work,was in the kitchen and noticed the beef was marked "not fit for human consumption,animals and solders only",never heard of anyone getting food poisoning though:D

Solders?


Seeing as bits of metal don't consume beef I presume you mean 'soldiers'. Why would anyone think beef that is not fit for human consumption would be ok for soldiers!?! :eek:

thefishone

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Solders?


Seeing as bits of metal don't consume beef I presume you mean 'soldiers'. Why would anyone think beef that is not fit for human consumption would be ok for soldiers!?! :eek:

Sorry,yes meant soldiers:o as to why,no idea.

johngalway

LisaLee wrote: »

In one job, one employee frequently dipped into the till, stole cigarettes and other merch and allowed other employees to take the fall for the cash minuses. This went on for months.

After she got caught stealing, no Gardaí were involved. Instead she was "encouraged to hand in her notice", was never reprimanded and quickly got a new job involving money (which we heard she was later fired from because of similar events) all because the manager of the place was family and didn't want hassle at get togethers. But that's only one story, have heard horror stories from other branches too.

Worked in a place one time, another worked was taking from the till for a long, long time. The boss was quite disorganised, but eventually got someone else in to do the accounts. CCTV went in then and she was eventually caught red handed.

Never charged though, which I thought was wrong because she was one of those "superior" know it all snobby ould bitch types. Turned out the estimate was she'd stolen over £10k during her time there.

juan.kerr

We had a phantom ****ter in one of previous jobs. He struck regularly and had occasionally left faeces stains on the cubicle walls / door.

charlemont

juan.kerr wrote: »

We had a phantom ****ter in one of previous jobs. He struck regularly and had occasionally left faeces stains on the cubicle walls / door.

Think I worked there too, He struck in a cubicle and the cleaning lady actually fainted and needed an ambulance.

Shenshen

I work in a business park, on the outskirts of town. From one side of our office (we're on the 1st floor) you can see fields an a farm. Earlier this year, most of our Finance department spent the better part of one day more or less glued to that window, as one of the cows was having a calf in the field...

cynder

One weekend ( I was a receptionist at a hotel) I checked in 2 guys, there was a.murder mystery weekend on and one of the guys cheated on his fella with one of the murder mystery actors, during this time the wife phoned looking for her husband and the jealous partner beat up the guy who his partner had cheated with.... Yet he was married..... We couldn't say anything to the wife, I really wanted yo tell her that her hubby was cheating on her with a man but it wasn't my place...


Another time we had a hen and stag night one of the single hens hooked up with a married stag, he paid for a room fir them, the next morning she arrived down looking for her bag, I suggested it was in age said room and she denied being up there, I sent accommodation up and her bag was there and the man had made his way back to his room, he also received a phone call from his wife and again I could not tell her he cheated on her..


Some if the things hotel staff see are beyond words and we cant say a thing....


One of the stags made a s**t on the stairs, another broke up a room, we had break in's and theft...

The staff themselves were 100% reliable but you don't know the clientele till they check in...

The Princess Bride

When I was a student nurse,a colleague was changing a baby's nappy.
She bent down to reach for something ,and the baby sharted a bucket load in her hair!

Priceless!

Blondini

the_syco wrote: »

Just remembered a perk a shop used to have for the staff; €1.50 for a lunch roll with whatever you could fit into the roll. Used to be great, as you'd have chicken and cheese and ketchup and stuffing for €1.50

This ended when someone was caught putting a full chicken between to halves of a roll, and paying only €1.50 for it

Legend!

EoghanIRL

Blondini wrote: »

the_syco wrote: »

Just remembered a perk a shop used to have for the staff; €1.50 for a lunch roll with whatever you could fit into the roll. Used to be great, as you'd have chicken and cheese and ketchup and stuffing for €1.50

This ended when someone was caught putting a full chicken between to halves of a roll, and paying only €1.50 for it

Legend!

Hahaha

wonton

eejit I work with, took about 25 2l cartons of milk off the shelf and emptied them and put them in the returns thinking they were gone off, turned out he had the date on his phone two days ahead.

Jen Pigs Fly

I work in a pet shop, the amount of people who's dogs would leave ****e and wee everywhere is unreal.

It's expected with animals, but it's even worse when the owners dont even tell you and you find a young child playing with said poo :eek:

Or someone slipping on doggy diarrhea, owners never told us the dog had a leaky bum

Another dog left a present near the back of the shop hidden behind a display shelf. Wondering what the smell was for weeks until someone found it reaching back to get a ball that fell behind it, wasn't pleasent.

Again not the dogs fault but the owners who don't report it, we dont check every nook and cranny and it's very hard to see wee on the floors.

that's just dogs, often had kids puke and all sorts on the floor too :rolleyes:

michellie

There was a customer going apes**t one day screaming at one of the lads, I told him to calm down and he turned on me screamed at me to " f**k off you waterford bitch"....

Sir Gallagher

michellie wrote: »

There was a customer going apes**t one day screaming at one of the lads, I told him to calm down and he turned on me screamed at me to " f**k off you waterford bitch"....

How did he know where you were from? Pretty badass insult to be fair haha

mauzo

I worked in supervalu as my first job....best craic ever. You wouldn't believe the stuff that happened.

We'd be open until 10.30 and the shop would be dead, the announcements we'd put out were hilarious. 'Dildo found in aisle 3' etc. There would be no managers around, just a supervisor who I was going out with at the time. Nightclub across the road so we'd get a load of drunks in asking for condoms, which we didn't sell. Everybody knew everybody in this shop.

We had a smoking shed that you had to walk through the back stores to get to, caught one girl sucking off the manager, one Christmas night out the manager was caught doing coke, he didn't even deny it lol the lads used to stick pads to you as you walked through the back stores and you'd be walking around all day with it without realising.

ONe day when I was on the front desk, hungover to ****, a man came in complaining that his wife bought a chicken that day and it was gone off. No receipt, normally we'd just refund him anyway. I called the supervisor and he was a right messer, honestly don't know how he had his job. All hell broke loose between them, shouting and screaming. The man was saying why would he bring back a chicken if he didn't buy it there etc. They were arguing for about 5 minutes straight with customers shocked and disgusted when your man pushed my supervisor, supervisor told him to fuk off and stormed upstairs.

SEcurity calmed him down, I told him I'd take a look...opened the bag with the smelly chicken in it and it had a big fkn superquinn sticker on it!!!! The bloke was mortified...

We'd always get people trying to rob stuff. Some made it so obvious. Travellers used to come in, fill a trolley up with dozens of each item and try sneak out the entrance. Was hilarious to watch. They'd take every frozen chicken we had, every packet of nails, clear the shelf of cleaning products, take half the sweet aisle and slowly try and sneak out the entrance. Then the security guard would go over, or we'd call 'Sam' to the front desk and all hell would break loose. Fist fights and everything. THe amount of statements I had to give the guards wasn't even funny.

Long post, sorry

four18

Being Sacked ! The petty cash was ''Only resting in my account''

Mickey H

syndeyfife wrote: »

I worked in supervalu as my first job....best craic ever. You wouldn't believe the stuff that happened.

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Long post, sorry

Was this in Galway by any chance?

[-0-]

An Indian fella blowing snot out of his nose into the sink in the public toilet used by everyone, and not even rinsing out the sink afterwards. Also saw him coughing up a ****load of phlegm and doing the same thing.

Other days he'll be washing his feet in the sink, or brushing his teeth.

This is a building with 4k people in it, too.

Hank Scorpio

Room with loads of laptops pcs equipment etc was robbed overnight, was the first one into the room in the morning, some mess. Had only been there a few months, one of the men I worked with daily looked at me and said "How come this happened since you've been here, this never happened before" , maybe not in those exact words.

Loved that job, hated the group of people I had to work with, bar a handful.

Public sector, a great bunch of lads.

HalloweenJack

This thread needs to be added to the Legendary threads list. Every story is a cracker.

mauzo

Mickey H wrote: »

syndeyfife wrote: »

I worked in supervalu as my first job....best craic ever. You wouldn't believe the stuff that happened.

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Long post, sorry

Was this in Galway by any chance?

Nope! Dublin

Brokentime

syndeyfife wrote: »

Nope! Dublin

Not on Harcourt Street, is it?

mauzo

Brokentime wrote: »

syndeyfife wrote: »

Nope! Dublin

Not on Harcourt Street, is it?

Nope, was a bit of a hole when I worked there as you can imagine. It's all done up and fancy now, hired new people so I'd say the craics shìte..

Brokentime

syndeyfife wrote: »

Nope, was a bit of a hole when I worked there as you can imagine. It's all done up and fancy now, hired new people so I'd say the craics shìte..

Hmmmm, I want to guess again. Is it D'olier street? Across the road from a nightclub, used to be a kip but they tidied it up...

Sounds like a laugh.

hefferboi

I work in a pub and last halloween we were having a fancy dress party. Place was packed but it was fair messy. There was a bit of commotion around the bathrooms about an hour before the music was over. I went over to see what the craic was, thought there was a fight. There was blood everywhere in the ladies toilets.

A woman was after having an miscarriage.

Dunno if it was to do with the drink or what but she was sent to the hospital. It was disgusting!

eaglebhoy

One reason I'm glad most Cinemas now are part of a chain is because I expect (hope) that the carry on I witnessed when I worked in my local one where I grew up when I was 20 couldn't be gotten away with in them now !

Among other things we would see who could fit the most of themselves into the popped popcorn display case then of course serve same to the next customers ! One guy could actually fully fit into it and liked to do so regularly !

If you ever had reason to look around any given cinema when the lights are on you might notice stains and marks up the walls, on the ceiling and even the screen, I learned that's because (in our cinema anyway) the staff basically have a free for all against each other with the remains left behind after last showing, firing the left over sweets, chocolates, popcorn and drinks at each other in a huge food fight !

The foam fire extinguisher also saw some regular unintentional use, it was all very amusing to my 20 year old self and was probably the most fun job I ever had but letting a bunch of 20 year olds run the place was like letting the Animals run the Zoo !

Needless to say I'm a little wary about what I get when I do find myself in an independent cinema somewhere in the country !

mauzo

hefferboi wrote: »

I work in a pub and last halloween we were having a fancy dress party. Place was packed but it was fair messy. There was a bit of commotion around the bathrooms about an hour before the music was over. I went over to see what the craic was, thought there was a fight. There was blood everywhere in the ladies toilets.

A woman was after having an abortion.

Dunno if it was to do with the drink or what but she was sent to the hospital. It was disgusting!

I think you mean miscarriage....

Father Damo

Kwack wrote: »

I have seen some mad things in my time! Was working with a fella who claimed to be in the IRA. ...

I have always found that the best way to deduce that somebody is not in the IRA is if they go out of their way and claim to be in the IRA :pac:

Working late one evening, installing new IT kit.
I heard this slapping sound as I walked down the corridor, walked past an open office door to see the manager giving the secretary a good spanking, she was a redhead and her arse was as red as her hair! :P

She seemed to be enjoying it..

wildlifeboy

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Myself and a group of students studying for a computer degree got a tour of several of the large IT companies who wanted to hire us directly after we did our exams.

One of the companies we got a tour of was IBM. At the time, they provided tech support to the US market, so our early morning visit was actually the 'out of hours' period...hence the place was fairly empty. The few staff there were a bit surprised to see us.

Anyway, this manager was showing us around, and wanted to give us a quick look at the Employee Recreation area. So, she opened the door to let us have a peek in. Cue a stunned and embarrassed look on two love birds getting down & dirty on the sofa.

Suffice to say...we all applied to work at IBM. We really liked the employee recreational services.

13 years later, I'm still there, but haven't been offered sex in that area yet. So disappointed.

Where you on Aptiva Support in 98/99?

Bruce7

A friend of mine used to work in this absolute sh*thole of a pub in a crappy part of town. He used to do split shifts and would have a three or four hour break during the afternoon. One day we went on the beer during his break and then I went with him when he went back to work, and we kept on drinking there.

He was working in the basement of this place and it was pretty quiet, just me and him at the bar with a few people at the pool table which was out of sight of the bar. Because of the type of clientele this dump attracted, he couldn't leave the bar unattended for a second, so although he was bursting for a piss he couldn't go to the toilet. Eventually, he ended up pissing into a pint glass, saying he'd throw it down the jacks and bin the glass when he got the chance.

But then this punter came in and he was pouring him a pint of Heineken when I saw him toss in about 30% of the pint of piss. The guy drank it all and gave him a wink afterwards, saying that one was a bit flat. This particular kip was known for selling slops and this is what the customer obviously suspected had happened.

Bruce7

Brokentime wrote: »

This has got to be the Flowing Tide bar on Abbey Street!!!

No, but it wasn't far from there!

10 years and years ago when I worked in superquinn we used to get massive 2lt tins of euroshopper dog food and stick them in the already full cardboard compactor.
when it was turned on the there was some pop and chucks would fly everywhere!
the smell was unbelievable and the manager used to go spazz.


One of my mates worked in tesco and he used to slide porno cards into cornflake boxes and boxes of teabags!
he was a funny bastard.

CamperMan

this was shocking.... lazy people sitting about all day long complaining there was nothing to do, yet getting paid.. should have all been sent home.

one place I worked, a guy operating a copper tube coiling machine lost his hand as it pulled it through..

keithclancy

Was working in a bar years ago, boss told me to go in and clean the toilets.

Went in and looked like someone had a dirty protest, was all over the walls, even on the roof.

Went out and told the boss, he said "Get on with it, theres some rubber gloves in the back.

I told him that it was a health hazard and he should get someone professional in to clean it.

He said do it or lose your job.

I said fine .. and left.

Felexicon

Apologies to everyone for derailing the thread. If I offended anyone I'm also sorry but I stand by what I said. I've deleted my previous posts that were off topic as this is not the thread for the disscussion

Felexicon

keithclancy wrote: »

Was working in a bar years ago, boss told me to go in and clean the toilets.

Went in and looked like someone had a dirty protest, was all over the walls, even on the roof.

Went out and told the boss, he said "Get on with it, theres some rubber gloves in the back.

I told him that it was a health hazard and he should get someone professional in to clean it.

He said do it or lose your job.

I said fine .. and left.

We had one of those urinals that's like a pig trough. One night a guy walks up to me and said he had been sick in it. Same story I told the boss and he said to get it cleaned now. I took that as permission to hand the offender a bucket and a pair of rubber gloves.
His mates gave him so much stick he cleaned it himself in the end.

Plazaman

My neighbour used to work in a crematorium in Birmingham about 10 years ago. It was a busy day he said with 4 cremations.

Generic type coffins, closed a couple of hours before cremation and hand written numbering system led led to a mix up between two of the "guests". It was only a record check two days after that they realised there was an anomaly between the times and who got cremated. Rather than upset the apple cart they said nothing but did improve their procedures afterwards.

Still, there could be a family sitting in their living room somewhere with their Granny in an Urn on the mantlepiece who is actually a builder named Gerry*

*Not actual name of course

humanji

I've deleted a lot of the off-topic bickering posts here. Keep to the topic, and remember that because you find something funny doesn't mean it's appropriate to post it here.

michellie

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

How did he know where you were from? Pretty badass insult to be fair haha

He was a mental patient haha:D I dont know, i probaby have a big Waterford head on me and it was in Waterford so maybe he just took a lucky guess!:P

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

A disgruntled client went around the back of our building and took a sh¡t in our smoking area

who_me

Anything sexual in our company is just par for the course. The only way you'd get in trouble with porn is if you don't share. And the office has been used for sexual encounters many times, I've walked in to find a colleague sitting down at his desk smiling and a (female) friend in the room, turns out he wasn't wearing any pants and the blob on the carpet wasn't mayonnaise. The couch in the reception is virtually covered in semen stains.

The most shocking thing was when some of the guys started watching the Iraqi beheading videos in the office. At least they turned the sound down, still kept giving a commentary though. Puke.

Brokentime

who_me wrote: »

And the office has been used for sexual encounters many times, I've walked in to find a colleague sitting down at his desk smiling and a (female) friend in the room, turns out he wasn't wearing any pants and the blob on the carpet wasn't mayonnaise. The couch in the reception is virtually covered in semen stains.

How did you get your job in the Dail then?

danniemcq

ok so i didn't witness it but...

before i started in here there was one guy who was constantly spanking the monkey in the loo's. Apparently he had no shame and wouldn't stop if someone came into the toilets or someone was in one of the other cubicles. Awful lot of noise.

So long story short he leaves and 6 months later my mate orders a take away and this same lad lands at the door with his bag of chips. Needless to say knowing where his hands had most likely been he ended up throwing out the bag of chips!

When i said that they couldn't have been contaminated he agreed but he couldn't get the mental image especially seeing the bag was greasy. He ate the pizza though!

juan.kerr

michellie wrote: »

He was a mental patient haha:D I dont know, i probaby have a big Waterford head on me and it was in Waterford so maybe he just took a lucky guess!:P

You were either eating a Blah or going on about how great they are.

ash23

I worked in a hotel and one of the chefs was a bitter little bast@rd.
I was a waitress and one of the customers returned something because it was the wrong order, lets say it was chicken instead of steak.

Chef screamed at me that it was my fault, ranted for about 5 mins, called me all sorts, that I had taken the order wrong. I calmly slid across the original slip I had written the correct order on and walked away.

Came back to get the correct dish and he handed it to me across the pass. I grabbed it and it was scalding hot, burnt my hand and dropped the dish. The petty little sh!t had put half the plate under the grill so he was able to handle the cool side with his bare hand and I took the hot side.

I made a complaint about him, he made a counter complaint about me (for dropping the dish). I was pregnant at the time and knew I wasn't staying so I let the case go on and on, then he got a serious bollocking, had to apologise and I finished up the same day.

Kwack

Not work related but years ago went for dinner with family. We all ordered steaks and after waiting about 20 mins for meal dug right in as soon as it was dropped off. About a minute later the waitress called over apologising that they had given our table another tables mean and proceeded to take our semi eaten meals off us and gave them to our neighbouring table haha. I honestly could only laugh in shock!!

CrazyRabbit

wildlifeboy wrote: »

Where you on Aptiva Support in 98/99?

Yes

I_smell_fear

Reading this thread and becoming paranoid that there probably is/was shit everywhere..