Strangest workplace occurrences

I'm doing fine

So a few years ago a former employer was trying to boost morale or something. Making the workplace less of a horror show would have been a good start but apparently these guys had a better idea

They got a male Italian opera singer to sort of spontaneously launch into song in the middle of the canteen and music started playing on the PA speakers

The poor woman sitting at a table in front of him nearly jumped out of her own skin in terror 😂

Productivity definitely increased that day because we all abandoned the canteen within about 2 mins, place went from around 200 people to 20 in no time

I thought that was in response to my story and someone was spontaneously **** on the floor of the canteen 😱

So was it the winner or loser who got sacked?

Being marched to mass on Sundays and holy days.

🤣🤣

I was in the army.

A college told me they saw a ghost where we work, my husband had to take part in a mindfulness chocolate eating wellness day thing, unfortunately, some hadn't fully read the instructions and had eaten the chocolate before the mindfulness.

16 years ago

Worked in callcentre tech support. won't give any more info. certain collegue one of the longer ones on this UK/Ireland Team received Awards for going the extra mile every 6 months, a senior manager would come up to her desk and present her with it with great ceremony. This same colleague was out on sickleave a LOT. Don't know what happened her subsequently.

Just the usual phantom sh*tter. On the floor of the female toilets, a lot of times. There was a thread on this years ago and it's amazing how many people have come across a phantom sh*tter.

I’m a bit lost. Was she riding the manager?

Well that escalated 😂

At our sales kick-off not too long ago, we were having dinner in a large function room...

At one table, a fella gave his German colleague the Sieg Heil salute. I'm not sure what they were talking about or what the context was.

At another table, as the top performers were being announced and celebrated, a female colleague was overheard remarking "well clearly I didn't suck enough cock".

Both were sacked the very next day.

Got to work one Monday to hear that the company PR guy (always seemed like a lovely, sincere lad) - had hanged himself in a police cell over the weekend. Apparently after being charged with sex offences involving children.

I do not believe that for a second.

You don't believe that it happened?

Or don't believe it was the strangest thing ive experienced? I guess I've been lucky in that all my colleagues have been toilet trained.

I'm not sure if lucky is the right word. Sure, you never encountered a PS, but I've never encountered a kiddy diddler.

Chief Flatulence Officer?

we had one too in my office!

Worked in an investment company on harcourt st.

We had a new member of staff, quirky guy, the girls on the team didn't seem to like him much and thought that he was a bit creepy. Anyway, a few months into him working there, his partner had a kid.

Everyone congratulated him gave him cards ect. However a couple of weeks after the child was born people started noticing something strange as they walked past his desk (his desk was closest to the isle, just as you entered the room. Basically everyone had to walk by his desk, to get to their own desk)

What was odd? You ask...

The guy had f**king a picture of his wife breast feeding his kid as his wallpaper background and not just her sitting in a chair in a room feeding it but a proper full quality zoomed in picture, like you could see the dimples on the nipple and the baby's head spanned almost the full height of the screen.

Complaints we made by a number of staff and he was told by our manager that it was inappropriate for the workplace and to remove it...

...but he didn't, he refused to remove it, claiming that it was "natural"

He stuck to his guns, refused to remove it and was eventually fired after a number of meetings with managers at various levels in the company.

As a final note, there was also a phantom shitter in this company too

I worked for a financial services company and there was a colleague that I had always known wasn't fond of his job. One day I asked him a straight forward question and shortly after he got up and went into HR handed in his notice and walked out. I still can't decide if it was strange or admirable.

Annoying

One place I worked in had no windows in the toilets. There was one guy who would constantly turn off the lights on his way out if there were people in the cubicles. So the place would be pitch dark. Not ideal for wiping.

Strange

We used large jars of instant coffee where one person constantly poured boiling water into

There was also a similar issue with cornflakes. Three or four of us would buy a large box and have some for breakfast each day. On a few occasions, we found a large quantity of milk poured into the plastic inner bag thereby ruining it for everyone else. And wasting a load of milk in the process.

We never found out who was responsible.

Well for starters you can't inspect the toilet roll to ensure that the job is done correctly. No one likes a crusty arse.

Given the choice, I'd say close to 100% of people would prefer the light on rather than off.

I fell asleep on top of a big AC duct and heard the boss and super walking below me. They went to another room and I jumped down with tool belt . They asked me where i was and I replied that they walked past me and must be blind 😷

Need a new thread with a poll to find out how many phantom dumpers are out there. Have to say, never came across one but it seems common.