What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen (or happened) at work? At my work, there’s someone that keeps eating other people’s lunches! I also heard of former weird / creepy employees. We have this check in / check out system on the computer with our pictures on it, and there was this one guy that stored all of these female’s pictures in his personal files, and included in there were some pictures that he took himself vigilante style…
weirdest think i saw was the toilet after some guy had taken a huuuuge dump. seriously the whole bottom of the bowl looked as if it had been painted brown!
In my early days, was hooking up a trader’s PC on the trading floor, scrabbling around around his desk and found a two-foot pile of porno mags. Not sure what opportunity he found for some light reading on a 500 person trading floor.
When I worked in equity research, I had a superior that would call me and my fellow associate every day at 7:30AM just to see if we were at our desk. He’d also call at arbitrary times of the day while he was out of the office visiting clients to see if there was any “news,” which we realized after a couple weeks were just poorly veiled attempts to check out if we were around. This kind of stuff was just one of many reasons that fueled my desire to go to private equity as soon as I could.
numi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I worked in equity research, I had a superior > that would call me and my fellow associate every > day at 7:30AM just to see if we were at our desk. > He’d also call at arbitrary times of the day while > he was out of the office visiting clients to see > if there was any “news,” which we realized after a > couple weeks were just poorly veiled attempts to > check out if we were around. This kind of stuff > was just one of many reasons that fueled my desire > to go to private equity as soon as I could. haha - dude i had a similar thing about crazy control freak managers. i had one manager that made me log my client billable hours by the minute with descriptions for each minute and submit to her at the end of every day . . . micro managing ? ? I think so.
A former colleague saved all his used paper coffee cups in a pile on his desk. The cleaning people don’t remove anything from our desks, so he had several years worth of cups. Never was able to figure out exactly what he was thinking.
I was working one day and trader behind me picks up phone … " yeah its a 86’ but runs good. Has new brakes and A/C is ice cold…" about 3 hours later " have two on the floor but you better act quick they will move fast…the lakers always pack the house" dude was selling stuff on ebay and taking calls on the desk… it was funny the first time… not so much 4 months later
I spent 5 years as a management consultant working in nursing homes (which, by the way, have to be among the worst run businesses around. There are reasons why the bulk of the big ones were taken private). I could write a book about the crazy things I’ve seen. And it’s not just the old peoples antics. Things get especially crazy when you get into the inner city nursing homes. Nurses shooting up heroin in the bathroom. And where did they get said heroin? From the 80 year old resident on the third floor that just happened to be a drug dealer. And you’d be SHOCKED at how many young people like to get it on with the old wrinkled people!
I turd-burglared a gay guy on my floor and now he is always trying to chat me up… Now, I triple check underneath the stalls each time I need to deuce lest some guy thinking I am making a pass at him
I left a firm a few years back that always had food in the kitchen for the employees. Everything from chips and soda to cheese and crackers. One morning some one brought in a giant bowl of scrambled eggs. There must have been 4 dozen eggs in that bowl…cold and runny scrambled egs. Not only was the sight disgusting, but the smell went through the entire office.
#1 Gunner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I left a firm a few years back that always had > food in the kitchen for the employees. > Everything from chips and soda to cheese and > crackers. haha this reminds me of this one time I walked into the kitchen when I used to work in an office down south. i went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea at about 2am. I was greeted with very wide eyes of a pudgy mexican janitor dude raiding the fridge and eating everyone’s food. He had an array of other employee’s snacks on the counter from the fridge and his mouth was full of food!!! he just stared at me with a full mouth of food and eyes growing wider, with him not knowing where to move or what to do. Then he acted like he was going to get something out of the fridge and chewed really fast and then acted like he was cleaning out the fridge. I started laughing and I said “no pasa nada” to the guy - - I didn’t really care. I thought it was so funny. Then he started laughing and just said “lo siento lo siento lo siento” and started crazily cleaning all around the kitchen and the floor while my tea was finishing in the microwave and then went on this cleaning rampage to somehow skew my view of what I saw or something? was funny. I was friends with the guy and would often talk to him late at night as I would be working late and he would usually have my cube area to clean (ie my floor / wing).
dmnyc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I turd-burglared a gay guy on my floor and now he > is always trying to chat me up… > > Now, I triple check underneath the stalls each > time I need to deuce lest some guy thinking I am > making a pass at him You stole a gay guy’s poo?
When I worked in a call center years ago, I was on the floor with may be 20 other people. Two of them were a gay couple. They were very open about it and nobody seemed to care until one day they played cop and robber, chasing each other through the whole office. Management stepped in and sat each guy in a different cubicle. Too bad for me, they put the “more aggressive” guy in my cubicle. And then I had to listen to him cheating on his mate on the phone with other guys! He must have had at least three more other liaisons running and what I heard during these conversations I cant repeat.
^ go on stiffy, tell us we’re all adults here
nequity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ^ go on stiffy, tell us we’re all adults here Trust me nequitty, you don’t wanna know. The conversations between this gay gorilla (at least 6 ft 8 tall!) and his various friends usually circled around sexual practices and health problems (that kind that usually only those encounter who frequently change partners). It was nothing someone with a halfway sensitive stomach wants to hear.
Panties on the floor
Stiff1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I worked in a call center years ago, Is it true that you have time limits to use the restroom?
I worked in a call center in college. We had strict limits on when we could be on and off the call queue. However, if you were a big seller, you could basically do whatever you want. I was in the top 5 salespeople every month, even though I was working part-time and most everyone else in the top 20 were full time (out of about 150 associates). Accordingly, I could pretty much take as long of breaks and lunches as I wanted, dick around, and do as I please because my numbers were so good.
Another weird thing at the workplace – I came into work one top dressed in a gorilla outfit on Halloween four years ago, and sat down at my desk like it was any ordinary day. Typing is remarkably difficult when you don’t have complete access to your digits, however. By the way, this is a thread that we need to keep alive. Maybe I should post a new story here every day…I’ve seen (or participated in) enough random stuff at the office to churn out at least a month’s worth of posts on this thread…
an intern built a fort around his desk out of newspaper and masking tape. same intern wore one of those oversized cowboy outfits that inflates with a little fan in the back. hi-larious. he’s probably reading this. what’s up JL?