46 Jaw-Dropping Workplace Meltdowns That’ll Make You Question If Your Coworkers Are the Real Challenge
Candy man decided we were all in a huff and refused to restock and the money tub was forever empty.
Those cans of pop and sweets must have been there for months with the occasional £1 coin in the tub.
Completely ruined the whole set up.
A few month later, he unwrapped EVERY sweet and microwaved them, crushed every bag of crisps, binned them all, and emptied every can of pop down the drain
The more I think about it, the more I think he was just trying to make a quick few quid and was complaining those charity coin machines were eating into his profits.
Two middle aged men having to be physically separated by colleagues when a fight broke out over use of a hot desk.
The one who actually booked the desk still works there. The one who attacked him because he felt he should be able to use it… well, he had to leave.
Admin staff newbie manually shoved more paper in to the top loading light office use type paper shredder than should have in one go. Used fingers to jam more in, got fingers stuck. I kid you not two fire engines, an ambulance and police all turned up to “rescue” her. There must have been at least 7 emergency workers in total. The amount of paper she’d inserted had actually protected her fingers pretty well even though she jammed the machine up with them and couldn’t release them back out again. I think she was more traumatised than physically injured and we never saw her again but she did try to sue the company for her own stupidity.
My husband has one.
He worked in McDonald’s as a teenager. One day one of his co-workers had a melt down. Got on to the counter in the restaurant, took his nuts and put them in between a burger bun and shouted “who wants some mcknacks.”
I never know whether to believe this story but it happened in Great Yarmouth so probably true.
Can’t go too much into detail, but worked at a family owned company for some time. The cops got called because one staff alleged that another staff pulled a knife on them. No one else in the office observed it. After that, cameras were installed. Place was pretty toxic.
We had the whole factory evacuated because the fire alarm went off. Fire engines Turned up and everything. Turned out that someone in the office women’s toilets had dropped a real stinky load and sprayed so much air freshener to hide the smell that it set the fire sensor off. I never found out who it was though.
One of the shift managers had to be put on nights for his own safety and the general harmony of the factory after he slept with/dated too many of the day staff.
Worked in an office with a woman who smelt like she was rotting and looked like it too.
You couldn’t eat your food at your desk, one girl brought her salad back up when the lady passed her desk. Had to wait for her to retire. Was bloody awful to work with. Constantly talked about.
She would also create issues in the bathroom. I was in an office upstairs but I felt for the twenty women that put up with it for years.
Got reemed out by my boss at an animatronics/puppetry job because I complained about the headcast he insisted he do of me – nearly suffocated me in the process as he blocked my airways misapplied alginate and he’d put so much on in one go it pulled on my face and ended up making the cast look like I’d had a stroke and passed. Thought he was gonna throw the thing at me he got that mad.
I worked in a pretty large office. I asked then girl down the hall on a date. We went to her place where we had one dring and then I left, she just wasn’t for me. Several days later she stormed into my office, stood in the middle of the room and shouted at me she said, “What the hell is wrong with me?” Everyone in the room was shocked and silent until she left. That was weird.
Worked with a woman pretty much my entire professional career that honesty did absolutely nothing but personal stuff at her desk, and yes, management knew she did nothing, yet always, always, turned a blind eye to it. When the internet was introduced to our work station computers, all she did was browse the internet all day long. She was big into scrapbooking and soon she was running, and getting paid by various web sites related to scrapbooking, all from her work station, use company equipment and time, not only did she collect a handsome check from our employer, she was also getting paid by the websites she contributed to serving executive level positions with them. She also came and went as she pleased, one time I took a week off from work, I was at Walmart with my wife and ran into this woman with a grocery cart full of groceries. I had my wife call our work number and asked for this particular woman, my boss told my wife she must have stepped away from her desk, could he take a message? This woman worked nearly 40 years before retiring with full benefits, she never got in trouble once.
I didnt work there but i went i to a shop, and 3 of the people who worked at this shop were fist fighting three homeless people on the street so i went up to the counter and asked what was happening and the person who was there, looked at me and said that it was their first day and had no idea what was going on LOL.
Worked in a bar where 90% of the staff walked out in one evening. The bar was struggling and the team had been working hard on hosting events that brought in more people through the door.
We found someone who wanted to do over 50’s salsa classes, it was the first night that it was on and it was going well.
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