What are some of your weirdest days at work?

I'm currently typing this while wearing an eye patch because my contact lens somehow got a hole in it. If I don't wear the stupid eye patch I start getting a headache after 15 minutes. While this is by far not my weirdest day at work, that is probably the day my boss told me he was going to leave for a couple weeks to become a woman, this is an interesting one none the less.

Anyone have any good really weird day at work stories? School counts also.

There was this one day I went in to work dressed like this.

Totally not gay at all right?

Back when I worked at a clothing store, I had to hold some old guys belt while he went into the bathroom to empty his catheter.

One day I had a meeting with my boss. A pigeon flew into his office through an often opened window. It flew around a few laps and then flew out the way it entered. We looked at each other and he said "that was weird". "Yeah", I replied. We then proceeded with the meeting.

I work at a Spencer's Gifts...

Nuff said

Working at a movie theater.

Homeless looking couple come in wearing giant backpacks, a folded up tent and had their dog. The dog had a saddle on it, carrying water bottles and such. They looked at the food's prices, complained about it and spent at least $20 on the arcade games that movie theaters have on the side. After they played for awhile, they went to the hallway and laid down with their dog.

Managers didn't really know what the fuck was happening or what to do.

When I worked at a barn horses escaped during a kids birthday party and me and some others had to try to find and catch them.

I do a thing called COE in Vegas. basically people and the bank pay me and my crew to go into recently forclosed/evicted homes and clean them out. I once stumbled upon a dead cat in between the mattress and the box spring of a bed. Apparently the house use to be a whore house and somebody thought it would be funny to have sexy time on top of a cat.

I used to work in an adult store in Vancouver called Fantasy Factory (I have no idea whether the chain still exists or not). There were plenty of odd days there let me tell you. Although most of them centered around thoroughly depressing topics I guess, so not all that much to laugh at. Vancouver has a large drug problem you see.

That being said, naked bike man and punchy veteran guy were hilarious. Met some crazy characters in that place as you may imagine. All in all, good times. Excuse me now while I silently reminisce...

I work at a grocery store. It sucks. The town the store is in is full of Asian immigrants. I have a few choice words to use to generalize about all of them and their associated cultures, but I won't repeat them here.

When eggs go on sale for a dollar a dozen they swarm the store. Literally, swarm. There needs to be a person filling eggs literally all day or they will run out. It's one of the most aggravating, disheartening, and grotesque experiences to go through at work. They buy a shitload of eggs and sell them at their own stores for jacked-up prices. The things I say when I go to the stockroom on these days would make a weeaboo chew through his tongue and claw his eyes out.

I work for the news and about a month ago I was out on a shoot when suddenly there was a torrential downpour and got completely soaked head to toe. I spent the rest of the day in a bright yellow poncho and matching pants as they were the only spare clothes laying around the office. Oh yeah and I was barefoot too bc my shoes and socks were also drenched.

I work at a drive-in movie theater and see some stuff every now and then. One time while walking the lot during the show I hear water running, it's loud, like a fucking hose. I shine my flashlight around and find some old fat lady taking the biggest piss ever. I inform her that we have restrooms in the concession area and she instantly cuts off the flow and gets back in the car without saying a word.

Also I had a lady bitch at me because I charged her blind child for a ticket to the movie. Now if the kid were blind and def I might have reconsidered.

As janitorial staff at a hospital, I once was called into the morgue, where I had to transfer a corpse from the wheeled stretcher onto the slide-out fridge slab.

At the same job, where I worked evening shift, the entire crowd exiting from work ran for their cars - doctors, nurses, and all - as what appeared to be a giant spinning UFO hovered menacingly over the parking area. However, it was a Monday night during NFL football season, and this hospital was near the Cleveland Browns' stadium, where a TV blimp with a scrolling lighted message was hovering. In fairness, this was ages ago in the early eons of such technology.

I was skeptical, having seen a bizarre real UFO in my youth, and one of the few who didn't actually run to my car, but the white-coated doctors running for fear did creep me out some.

I'm a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and work in a secure ward. Everyday is a strange day at work :)

@wonkykong said:

I'm a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and work in a secure ward. Everyday is a strange day at work :)

Is this Ann?

Did you find my Bunny?

@SmilingPig said:

@wonkykong said:

I'm a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and work in a secure ward. Everyday is a strange day at work :)

Is this Ann?

Did you find my Bunny?

I'm not sure...can you provide me with an artist's immpression of your bunny? If this one turns out to be yours I'll mail it to you.

@wonkykong

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@SmilingPig said:

@wonkykong said:

I'm a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and work in a secure ward. Everyday is a strange day at work :)

Is this Ann?

Did you find my Bunny?

I'm not sure...can you provide me with an artist's immpression of your bunny? If this one turns out to be yours I'll mail it to you.

How about the day when my office mates decided that what an unhealthy potted plant really needed was some ground up contraceptive pills.

The plant turned yellow.

It recovered, after a few years. It's actually in my greenhouse now....

I work in a den of debauchery with a bunch of crazies and drug addicts (aka, the local pizza shop) so it's hard not to go a day without something crazy happen. We've had days where everyone was too drunk/high to operate the store and we had to close down, we've had managers have emotional breakdowns and literally run away, we've had bar fights, rat problems, suicide attempts, gas leaks, chronic liars, power outages, drunken karaoke mishaps..

Actually, one night in particular that stands out is when one of our delivery drivers' son came in dressed in full stereotypical Native American regalia, complete with a whole fucking bear skin draped over himself. The bear's head was resting on top of his, teeth protruding over his shaved head as if about to devour him, body draped like a cloak over his back. Don't ask me where this guy got a bear skin. This is the kind of guy who would get high on cocaine and disappear into the forest behind his house for like three days at a time. Nobody knew what the hell he was up to half the time. Hell, he probably broke into somebody's house and stole their rug. Anyways, he then started dancing his "traditional Native American dance" for everybody in the bar. There were people whipping out their phones and recording it because it was so ridiculous. But this is the real kicker: This guy was totally white. If you trace his genealogy, he's exactly 1/14th Native American. But yet he's convinced that he's "in tune with the spirits of his ancestors," and tries to use it to pick up chicks at our bar all the time.

Anyways, that's just one of a myriad number of exquisitely bizarre stories to come from my work.

@ImpendingFoil:

My boss once cursed me out in front of the entire faculty only to act like nothing happened three weeks later.

i have a couple. i use to work at a place that had special events: company picnics, weddings, school trips, and other such things. one time we had a retard thing. just think there were a bunch of retards there. i was grilling hotdogs, everyone was just a pile up. guys yelling at each other saying hey i was infront of you, his cutting me. i'll have a hotdog. it was pretty funny day.  sadly they went out of business.
 
this was a recent one, i get temp jobs from a company. i got a job at a warehouse, they sell CD, movies, porn, and adult toys. i would pick up people's order, find the item and somebody would put them in the envelope/ box, and ship it out. it was pretty weird having to pick up a porn and looking at it. there were things that i didn't want to see on the porns, dicks, gay porn, fat porn. it was also weird having to ask people where this porn was.
none the less, it was a fun job.

A couple of years ago at my previous employer, the staff was called into an all-hands meeting in the afternoon, where we discovered that the CEO and the COO had both been forced to resign. Neither of them were present for the meeting; they had both been escorted from the office earlier in the day. The reason was because the board of directors had provided the FBI with evidence that the CEO had been embezzling money from the company, and the COO, a friend of his, had done nothing to stop the behavior.

This was absolutely crazy to hear since the ousted CEO was also the CTO and the main brain behind the companies ideas and designs. It meant that there would be some significant changes for the company, and there definitely were. But going back to that day, and that moment, it was like a heavy weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I wasn't so concerned about the CEO; he was basically a snake oil salesman and I never really had much interaction with him. The COO on the other hand was, in essence, a pit bull with a hair-trigger temper. It was utterly demoralizing to work under him, as he also took on the role of project manager for a number of the company's projects.

And suddenly, they were both gone. I felt like I had just received a visit from angels.

Oh, but to fast-forward, the company went bankrupt and shut down earlier this year. Unfortunately, it just couldn't survive the start-up life cycle. The former CEO's spending habits didn't exactly help matters, either. We all gave it a valiant effort to turn things around, bu it just wasn't mean to be. As for the ousted CEO, he's been convicted and sentenced to four years in federal prison. As for the COO, he was named in court documents, but I don't believe he was ever charged with anything, and as far as I know has disappeared off the face of the Earth. I imagine he's probably hiding in a back-alley in Rio somewhere.

@SmilingPig: It looks similar but I can't be sure, I'll leave the final decision to you. Here is a photo I took of him:

I haven't had anything weird happen to me yet. I hope I didn't just jinx it :{

@ImpendingFoil said:

that is probably the day my boss told me he was going to leave for a couple weeks to become a woman, this is an interesting one none the less.

That's...fucked up...out of curiosity, did that actually happen or? And if so, is he hot now?

I'm a supervisor at a pizza place, and this kid had been talking about quitting for a few weeks now. The other day, he asked if he could go out for a smoke break, I told him sure, and he just bailed and didn't come back. He totally fucked over the other guy, who was supposed to be leaving in like a half hour, but instead he ended up having to stay and close the store.

I had to explain to a very angry couple why their son was failing his basic English course at University. The answer was cause he's mildly retarded. I'm not joking about this shit, the guy was simple, he had the IQ of a little kid and one of the girls in the class used to look after him. He spent his midterm smiling at the ceiling and rubbing a furry toy. I honestly didn't know how to approach this as I though it was pretty fucking obvious why his grades were poor, but they felt that becuase they had paid to get in then he should automatically pass everything like I can cram a dictionary into his fucking head or something. Thailand can be a strange place to work.