what are the most ridiculous things that have happened to you in the workplace?

Question

when i worked in a shop, a woman wanted a refund on a garden ornament she'd bought. But it was cemented in her garden!

another one asked me if i knew the name of the song they were playing on the radio this morning?( when i worked in a record store).

another one became really angry when i didn't know the title of the book she was thinking of- the info she gave me was 'it's a paperback'

Answer 1

Cracking question, very funny.

I once worked at Dartford with a guy called Chris Small. One of the nicest people you could meet, but a typical graduate (very intelligent, but no life skills).

If you gave him a book to read, he would memorise it in a couple of days.

One day at work, he volunteered to make the coffees. He reappeared 10 minutes later carrying a new jar of coffee with the silver-foil seal still intact, and asked us how to get into it!!!!

The sad thing is he's now probably running a department in a bank, being paid fortunes 'cos everyone else knows what they're doing, and he still won't have a clue.

Answer 2

As a classroom teacher, I was once evaluated by my principal has needing to improve my classroom housekeeping because he saw three wadded up sheets of paper on top of some books in a bookcase. Other than that, my room was spotless... but since he couldn't find anything wrong with my teaching, he had to, I guess, look elsewhere.

Answer 3

Used to work behind a bar at local pub one busy Friday night and bloke came in and said I'll have my usual please. I had never seen him before so asked what his usual was. He got really gobby saying I should know as his expectations of a local pub was that I should know what all the locals drink. The pub I worked at is in a town with a population of 55,000! How on earth was I supposed to remember him when I had never seen him before and the pub held 200 people easily!!!

Answer 4

A plant in a pot fell on my head when I was a receptionist concussing me.

A crazy man came in to the shop where I once worked and asked me how much we charged for milk. We sold electrical goods.

I once put a call through to my boss and forgot to fully transfer it, I began to hear very strange noises and heavy breathing down the phone line- my married boss was engaging in phone sex with the GUY I just put through to him.

thats all I can think of right now.

Answer 5

One of the grossest was the day the water was shut off on our side of town and the boss' mother screeched no we can't close. It was a diner. We worked a huge lunch crowd with no running or even stored water. Imagine the dirty hands there. ewww

Answer 6

I was working in sales and a prospective customer/member asked me over the phone several times to go to Jamaica with him. He was getting a divorced and really needed a trip away. He hadn't even met me. Needless to say, I didn't go.

Answer 7

probably the most ridiculous thing that happened to me was either when the furniture truck showed up at five minutes to closeing time and wanted us to unload him that day instead of in the morning, that or somehow walking through a window thinking it was the doorway

Answer 8

when working for an insurance company . a man called to say he had an accident in his car. His letter said that a tree jumped out in front of him when he wasnt looking. some strange things happen to people when theyre driving

Answer 9

You do get some very silly customers. We had one customer who would wait outside one of our shops until it had several other customers in there then come in and complain loudly about some tiny or imaginary thing. I had to ban her from the shop in the end

Answer 10

I was shot at by people who had never even met me, or been introduced. On reflection wearing my military uniform in Northern Ireland and carrying a weapon - of minimal to medium destruction - probably had a lot to do with it, but it was still bad manners.