What is the funniest real work story you know of?

Answer 1

We once had a new receptionist and someone asked her to fax somthing for them. She put the paper into the fax machine and dialed the number. As the fax machine started to take the page in and scan it she said "Oh MY GOD i just faxed the only original" It was hilarious....she didnt realize that the fax machine didnt keep the paper!!!

Answer 2

I worked on an oilfield drilling rig for a while. There were these two guys who were really lazy and wanted to get out of work and still get payed for it. So they came up with the bright idea of hurting each other and claiming workers comp. Well the idea was to whack each other with a sledge hammer just enough to do a little damage. Long story short the first guy to take the hit, had his leg broken because the second moron swung the hammer too hard. Well they were caught and fired with nothing to show for their stupidity but one broken leg. Serves them right!

I also worked in a restaurant once when we hired this new kid to wash dishes for us. I was in a huge rush and asked him to wash the meat slicer that I had just used. Well lo and behold, the dumb-*** ran the whole thing through the dish washer! Amazingly, however, he kept his job.

Answer 3

I know a lot, but most can't tell because of confidentiality, my funniest for me wasn't a job I took, just an interview, I went to interview for a nanny job, at my second interview the lady made it very clear it was expected that her nanny would drink Alcohol, I was so taken aback, I didn't know what to say. She drinks and I guess it made her feel better. I felt sure I could not care for three small kids well while under the influence and ended up turning down the job.

Answer 4

I work in a small office. We had our annual termite inspection. The guy who came crawled into the crawl space at the front of our office through a trap door. I was sitting typing and a client came in about 40 minutes later. We were talking and the client says "Did you hear that? I swear I hear someone yelling help". At the moment he said that it occurred to me I had not seen the inspector come back out of the crawl space. I went to the back of the office and could hear hollering from below the floor. We had a trap door in the back of the office, so I opened it and a very agitated termite inspector came flying out of the floor. Seems he was to big of a guy to be able to come back out the way he went in. I apologized saying I hadn't heard him, but he didn't say a word. He walked to the front of the office, picked up his bag and walked out. Never saw him again. I on the other hand think about it and can't stop laughing.

Answer 5

My friend at Costco working in the pizza kitchen was filling an order for a Member,came around the corner with Members Smoothie slipped,held on to the Smoothie as she hit side of her head on the counter,tried to get up and fell back down,hit her hip on the right side,got up and served her Member as if nothing had occurred and "thankfully"she was not hurt.

Answer 6

I had a boss who was trying to insert a 5 and 1/2 inch floppy into the disk drive on his computer. Either he didn't know what he was doing, or wasn't paying attention, but he ended up sliding the floppy into one of the seams of the computer's case! We had to take his computer apart to get the disk back out....

I also once had a female boss and she and I were discussing a project in her office. She was explaining something to me when, without even stopping talking or acknowledging it in any way, she shifted in her seat, lifted one butt cheek, and farted Then, without breaking stride as she continued talking, she opened her desk drawer, pulled out one of those airwick-style air fresheners, opened it, and waived it under and around her bum. True story - I could not make this kind of stuff up!!

Answer 7

I worked at Chuck E Cheese during college. One Friday night(busiest night of the week), Chuck was walking around the floor visiting the birthday parties, dancing, having a good time, etc. He tripped, fell to one knee and his big Chuck E. Cheese head fell off and rolled down the aisle. Kids were screaming!!!

Answer 8

I hired a guy on Thanksgiving once, a jolly friendly breakfast bar host in his 60's. We allowed new employees to spend one night free in a whirlpool suite so they could know what the hotel had to offer guests. So, he and his cute, pudgy little "Mrs. Santa"-looking wife stayed in the big suite with the balcony overlooking the pool. A couple weeks later at our office Christmas dinner, Wally raises his voice to speak to all his new co-workers and says, "I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't feel that I know you all so well, (huh?) but when the wife and I stayed in the whirlpool suite last week, she climed out of the hot tub to go to the restroom and instead of going over to the bathroom door, she walked over to the balcony door and pulled back the curtain ... and there were all kind of people in the pool area just looking up at her stark naked. She screamed and ran and hid in the bathroom. I thought she'd die!" Well, he got to chuckling to where he could barely breath, and the rest of us just sat there all gap-jawed and wide-eyed, looking at his poor, white-faced, stricken wife. Why in the world he told this story on her in front of all of us, I'll never understand. But it was hyterically funny that it even happened in the first place, and doubly funny that he shared it with us. She got over it eventually, but I honestly can't even look at her without thinking of it. He died a couple years ago, and I literally was standing by his casket, hugging her, trying to not laugh in spite of myself at the thought of this story.

Answer 9

I had to announce a Mr. Tucker to a group of people I had just came from the dentist and of course miss pronounce Mr. Tuckers name. I was so embarrass I didn't come to work for 3days.

Answer 10

I have 2:

Co-worker got drunk at the annual Christmas party and bit the bum of the CEO's wife.

Female co-worker spell checked an requisition order for a new computer. Spell-checker changed "Pentium" to "Penis". She didn't catch it and sent it out to the entire team to review her order for a "60MHz Penis".