Funny Work Stories

[tgpo]

What is the funniest / saddest thing that has ever happened at work?

[pacmania_2001]

I could write a book about all the stupid work things that I have experienced both with customers and fellow employees.

Yesterday for example I had a teenager (probably just got his licence and driving Mum's car) come in (remember I work at the Australian equivelent of Walmart) and ask if the gas tanks (for BBQ's) would be capable of holding NOS.

[Faustus]

Funny? Sorry I do tech support, no funny stories. But here is a sad fact.

9 years of tech support has made me lose what little faith I have in human kinda. ahahahahahaha lol. no seriously.


edit: ok upon further inspection and getting over the rotten call I hard I guess I have alot of them. But its go home time so maybe I'll save them up for tonight.

[thayne]

The coolest time we had at the office was on my bosses birthday they bought a stripper in. Pretty awesome.

The funniest was when the stripper asked him to stand up. His face turned red and he said "I can't right now!" LOL

[tgpo]

The funniest was when the stripper asked him to stand up. His face turned red and he said "I can't right now!" LOL

HA HA HA!!!!

[adam]

I was working for Nortel and my site manager's specialty was testing. Basically he has various computer equiment and he plugs into the phone switches and runs all kinds of diagnostics. So they sent him to Alaska to test a switch and they gave him one of those prop job airplanes and he could only take one suitcase/item with him...so he took his fishing pole and left the diagnosic equiment. He basically just got a paid fishing trip, of course he was fired not long after that.

Another funny story was when this cocky new guy went right up to our main boss and told him, I don't care where you send me as long as its not cold. So he gets stationed down south somewhere and right in front of the customer he whips it out and takes a leak on the side of the building and the customer complained. When my boss found out he sent him to Alaska for 4 months.

If you want a sad story, how about Nortel's decision to double their workforce in 2 years. Right when they reached their goal their stock sank and they just had to lay them all off. They spent millions in training these folks and never got any return, not to mention that many of the people never returned their company issued laptops and wouldn't you know it, Nortel didn't keep very good inventory.

[Sifaga]

i only heard about this one when i was doing pc support

a lady in a remote office was having a problem with her mouse saying that it dosnt work

we sent her a new one and the new one didnt work

well after a few weeks we decided to send a guy out to this remote office to fix the problem

when he got there she started to show him the problem she was having

she moved the mouse side to side and said it works when you do this but dosnt work when you do this, she lifted the mouse off the desk, up and down.

[gmatov]

Was that the same lady who thought it should work like her sewing machine foot pedal?

[Ironballs]

Well I work for this right tit at work. He has his head well and truly jammed right up his chocolate starfish. He can't manage the team, totally incompetant and to top it all has less charisma than a rotting dead rat. He's an arse.

Enough of my problems. Here's the funny bit.

Every day me and my mate are pushing his desk up the office by about half an inch. He's already gone North by a foot and a half and the pilchard still hasn't twigged. What a knob.

We're running a sweepstate in the office to see how far we can move him before he says anything. My money is on the car park before he realises anything, he really is thick shite.

[j1d10t]

There was this manager (for this we'll call him Bob) in this company I used to work for that would eat anything. Anytime we'd have lunch brought in, he'd stop by and help himself. Anytime we had a potluck, he'd stop by and help himself. Anytime anyone brought in a bag a chips, a bag of popcorn, anything, he'd stop by and help himself. Well, we were joking around saying that he'd eat anything, so this one guy brought in some packing peanuts/popcorn (that small Styrofoam stuff) the next day and put some in a bowl on his desk. Well, Bob stopped by, and sure enough, he took a handful and popped them in his mouth. Everyone had a hard time not laughing. But the best part was that Bob came back a few minutes later and took some more! And it's not like they even looked like food - they were kind of milky colored, looked like little tubes, and had the texture of Styrofoam. He ate almost a half bowl of them, too. We were cracking up

[mec_modifier]

I work at a Horse Race Track in the Television Production department. It is by far the easiest and most fun job I have ever had. This year, we have had a bit of fun with Larry, this guy who works a few doors down the hall from us. We share a breakroom, with a coffeepot, fridge, and water cooler. No one in the TV department drinks water, we prefer highly caffinated soft drinks. But whenever the water cooler is empty, Larry brings the empty jug into our room and throws it against the wall, and tells us it's empty and we should fill it up. It's all a big joke, but it got annoying. One day, we broke into his office and filled it with about 100 empty water jugs, so that the room was overflowing with them. Funny thing is, he hasn't been in our room since.