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I remember seeing clients off after a meeting where I worked previously and we went to the reception. A woman came in looking confused and I asked her if she needed help. She said yeah, she wanted to top up her Oyster card and gave me 5. I told her politely that this is a Lawfirm. She goes "Yeah and?" then kissed her teeth and stormed out.

i used to work in search engine optimization when i got out of college, one of the biggest parts of the job was listening to ppl give voice activated search prompts and determining whether or not google returned the right result

hearing people unabashedly voice search for extremely specific porn niches was wild
the weirdest one that ill never forget was a dude looking for
"i like the butt milk sprayed all over my face"

A circus troupe came unexpectedly into our office to promote a local circus.

There we all were, busy at our screens, and suddenly the office door opens and in pours a stream of unicyclists, jugglers, clowns and what have you. They did a circuit of the office and then went straight back out again. For about a minute afterwards we just sat there bemused as fuck, wondering if we'd just experienced a collective hallucination.

Several years ago I worked for the dept. of highways. Sometimes they would have me manning a toll booth. One day I was radioed by my boss that the state police were chasing a sovereign citizen driving an 18 wheeler and he would most likely go through my lane.

I was instructed to shut my window and say nothing if be came through. State police stopped him again right before be got there. Was entertaining seeing him yanked out of his truck.

I saw a dead coworker be brought back to life. Someone found this dude slumped over at his desk, no pulse, panic ensues. The safety guy jumped into action with some others, they layed the guy down and hit him with some defibs from a wall station. He came back to after a few jolts and acted as if nothing happened as the medics wheeled him out to the ambulance.

A woman brought in a mini horse as a service animal, and it took a shit in the courtroom.

One time a customer came to me complaining men were looking at her chest buuher top was so tight that her breasts were almost falling out anyone would look but I sympathized with her and told her I would take care of it

I used to do office work at a police station. There were a lot of homeless people in the area that would come and do weird shit.

Like one lady came and started taking off her clothes in front of the station. They had to run out and stop her. That same lady also came in once and started moving the lobby chairs around. Not aggressively, but just like... decided to rearrange our lobby lol.

My last job was at the front desk of a hotel. One night a lady checks in, she's acting like a bit of an oddball. No reason for concern really, she just seemed off.

Later she came back down to the desk, and just kept talking and talking. Then she asked for a close restaurant, so I sent her to the Mexican place next to the driveway entrance.

Then I had several guests come in complaining about a lady at the Mexican place causing a scene. They said she got arrested for indecent exposure, and throwing a fit. Then a couple hours later she showed back up, nearly naked. Just a bra and panties. She approached the desk and was complaining that they kicked her out. I told her she should go get dressed. Instead she decided to do yoga right there. She kicked her leg up on the desk and was stretching... My manager was in the back and was watching through the cameras. No matter how much I tried to get her to go to her room, she wouldn't.

My manager called me and was laughing at me, asking if I needed this lady arrested. I didn't want to do that though, I just wanted her to go sleep it off. Anyway, my shift ended not long after and my manager took over. She did in fact call and have the lady arrested after I was gone. Told the cops their was a mental health emergency and to get her off the property. Idk what happened after. They just came and took her.

When I did telemarketing at MCI, one of the trainees in my training class threatened to kill people. He was escorted out of the building by police after lunch. The next morning, the woman he was actually threatening rode the bus to work and he was on the bus staring at her the whole way.

A couple jobs ago, a guy at work took a dump in the bathroom and uploaded a picture of it to Facebook with a caption that said something like "This is what it's like to work here." He got fired pretty quickly.

When I did desktop tech support, some guy got fired on a Friday. The following Monday, he followed someone into the building, sat down at a computer and tried to start working. Police were called and he was arrested.

CableZL posted...

When I did telemarketing at MCI, one of the trainees in my training class threatened to kill people.

Oh, that reminds me. One evening I got a phone call.

"Thank you for calling ________, this is Dustin, how may I help you?"

"My name Is _____ and I have a bomb. You're dead."

"Excuse me?"

"I said I HAVE A BOMB AND IM GOING TO KILL YOU. I'm gonna walk up to you, blow your brains out, and set off my bomb. It'll kill everyone in the building."

"Well, I'm the only one in the building, so that'd be a bit of a waste don't you think?"

"Don't you understand, I'm going to kill you!"

"Ok."

"You're going to die tonight."

"Anything else?"

"I have a bomb, and you're..."

"Okay, bye."

Then I hung up on them. Manager made me call the cops though. Turned out to be a teenager prank calling businesses all over town. The cops came to speak with me, and I was somehow the only one to actually get the person's name though. And yes, they were using their actual name. Plus, the father overheard the kid making another call after he was contacted by the police. He check their phone and saw all the calls.

I was very close to having to go testify in court, but I guess it got taken care of because I never got contacted again.

One time this guy who was eating at one of our restaurants got pissed that his order wasn't right. So even after it was fixed he still went on a tirade cussing out the server. Security told him they had enough and he had to leave. He tried to take his plate with him and when they asked for it back he threw it and hit an old lady in the head while she was playing a slot machine.

KogaSteelfang posted...

Oh, that reminds me. One evening I got a phone call.

"Thank you for calling ________, this is Dustin, how may I help you?"

"My name Is _____ and I have a bomb. You're dead."

"Excuse me?"

"I said I HAVE A BOMB AND IM GOING TO KILL YOU. I'm gonna walk up to you, blow your brains out, and set off my bomb. It'll kill everyone in the building."

"Well, I'm the only one in the building, so that'd be a bit of a waste don't you think?"

"Don't you understand, I'm going to kill you!"

"Ok."

"You're going to die tonight."

"Anything else?"

"I have a bomb, and you're..."

"Okay, bye."

Then I hung up on them. Manager made me call the cops though. Turned out to be a teenager prank calling businesses all over town. The cops came to speak with me, and I was somehow the only one to actually get the person's name though. And yes, they were using their actual name. Plus, the father overheard the kid making another call after he was contacted by the police. He check their phone and saw all the calls.

I was very close to having to go testify in court, but I guess it got taken care of because I never got contacted again.

JFC! What kind of moron does a bomb threat as a prank call? I wonder how much trouble he got in for that.

Many years ago I worked in the boonies of MO for the US forest service. My coworker and I visited a land owner in a very hilly area (we basically counted trees to create those maps you see that show forest cover) and were trying to figure out how to get a piece of land.
We showed the land owner our map and the landowner told us the piece of land was his neighbor's, and he'd have to come with us because the neighbor had an itchy trigger finger. So after that was settled, the landowner looked at the map again, then asked where the cemetery was that was deliniated on the map. My coworker and I shrugged.
We parted ways and after we got into our Jeep I said "You know, the only flat piece of land here is where the house sits." Now, I was new to the job and I could have been wrong, but my coworker says "I know. Let's get the hell outta here."

When I worked at a call center, I had the same customer in their back-to-back calls, and they bitched at me for like 45 mins each time because their card declined because they never updated the ccv

The only thing I can think of was when my manager told me that another manager who is a lesbian had six kids with another manager who was married.

and everyone including his wife knew about it

Backstory:

So we got this guy at work. He used to be the head of the Distribution Center (DC), until I took his job. Hes has been the punching bag for as long as he's been there. He takes it and knows it's his role. Its literally a moral boost thing and hes totally for it. He tries to dish it back out, but it's all "ur gay" jokes (hes 56).

Story:

One day he's showing me how dock plates work (never worked in a DC before I took his job; Still confused why I got picked). I pop it up and dont push it back down in time and he tries to jump up on it from the side and rolls down the whole thing before popping back up. Cameras caught the whole thing, and we played it back over and over for about half an hour when it happened laughing at (him) the video.

We now show it to ever new hire now as a "Be Safe" video.

Oh, odd I just made a topic about my work today.

lww99 posted...

A woman brought in a mini horse as a service animal, and it took a shit in the courtroom.

Lmao

Theres a guy at my work who goes into the stall so he can pull his pants down to his ankles to pee

makes me so uncomfortable, its so freaking weird

TheGoldenEel posted...

Theres a guy at my work who goes into the stall so he can pull his pants down to his ankles to pee

makes me so uncomfortable, its so freaking weird

I tattled on a kid who did that at the urinal in grade school, looking back I kinda felt like a dick for doing it and I dont even remember what happened, all I remember is he was crying and wearing a yellow train shirt, I wonder if that kids still doing it today