School/Workplace related stories

[Zeostar]

Anybody have any interesting things that have happened related to school/workplaces?

I'll start with something but it's not my proudest, because I was in the wrong.

We were in the cafeteria and I borrowed a friends device. It was completely stupid but I insisted on checking out his camera, he was very defensive and honestly I probably would have stopped, but his behavior was making me more curious. He eventually told me "okay", but insisted he didn't take many photos.

There was lots of pornography, mostly cartoon related, and many anamorphic animals.

I simply gave it back, pretending I didn't see it. There were 3 reasons. I shouldn't have opened his camera. The type of kids sitting around us would have bullied him without mercy for it. And he was just a teenager too, most of us have probably searched up strange things so it wasn't my place to judge.

 

[Corrin]

My work at the time did the ice bucket challenge on four of the managers. It was a children's school/disability health centre so there was a lot of us to watch.

 

[Caite]

When I worked at Round 1 there was a whole lotta stupid when it came to people. One of the questions I was asked was Can you smoke in here? Like really... it's been almost 20 years since the ban on indoor smoking was put into place.

Another one was when I was working on resetting coin pushers and had a customer come up to me and ask if the food counter was open. Mind you the lights aren't on nor are the menu TV's and no one is over there. It's one of those common-sense things.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

I worked at a uniform school over the summer and it was terrible. It's basically a bunch of entitled private school parents who throw a fit when we don't have the uniforms they need. (That's the abbreviated rant... there's much, much more to complain about but I'll stop here.) Yeah so here's one of my favorites moments that happened then.

I picked up the phone and the lady wanted to check on the status of her order. She had some things still on backorder. (Whenever we run out of a uniform piece, it has to get backordered. We don't actually make the uniforms, we get them shipped to us and then we sell them. The uniforms get shipped from California, and since things over there were starting to shut down again, it would take much longer for shipments to come to our store, so we had a lot of backorders this summer.)
Me: Okay, it says these items are still on backorder.
Them: But you guys said it would be here in two weeks and it's been two weeks. Can you check when it will arrive in the store?
(Two weeks is the generic thing we say when someone asks when something will arrive in the store. I'd like to point out that we never say exactly two weeks. I usually would say "around one or two weeks". Also we don't always know what schools' uniforms will be in the shipments.)
Me: No, that's unfortunately as much as we can check.
Them: Oh. Well thanks for nothing!
(I didn't fully process what she said, but she said it with such a friendly tone, and I heard "thanks", so my automatic response was...)
Me: You're welcome! Have a good day. *hangs up*

 

[Caite]

I also hate the people who would put a lot of money on a game card or get time play (which is only for certain games and not a lot of them) without asking any questions and then come back 10 mins later all pissed off because nothing is working or I didn't explain anything to them. I assume if you don't ask questions you know how everything works. I can't help it you're stupid and no you can't have your money back.

 

[Nah]

I don't really have any interesting stories to tell myself, but until recently I had a co-worker (he retired last year) who would often share some stories of things that happened to him. Can't remember all of them or the details of all of them, but some were things like:

-the time he inadvertently befriended either the Pagans or Hell's Angels (both are infamous biker gangs)
-the time a soldier nearly killed him because he mistook him for a trespasser
-the time when he tricked a neo-nazi into believing he was interested in his nazi paraphernalia and then burned it all in front of the neo-nazi
-his first encounter with a banana spider
-one time his uncle hacked into the Pentagon

and one really fucked up story

 

[RadEmpoleon]

This is probably one of my favorite moments from middle school. We were waiting to go to the cafeteria for lunch because there were still kids in there.
Annoying kid: I'm hungry, why can't we eat lunch?
Teacher: There are still kindergarteners in the cafeteria.
Annoying kid: I eat kindergarteners.
Teacher: Well you are what you eat.

 

[Starlight]

There's quite a few, but the first thing that springs to mind is this:

We had just been given a new regional manager, as in basically only one person down from the big boss. They were someone that hadn't been promoted from within, and really didn't know the job, yet were trying to make really bad changes without realising the consequences. Whenever anyone tried to raise concerns, he refused to even listen to them.

My work partner at the time and myself were sitting in a carpark discussing how awkward he was making the job for all of us. We were the two most successful people in the company in that particular job at the time, so we knew what we were talking about better than most...

Well... my partner eventually went to pick up their phone and... somehow they had dialled that very same regional manager, and he had been listening to the entire conversation...

The next day was really interesting...

 

[User Anon 1848]

i got harassed for months until i lost my cool and bitch slapped a male co-worker. have tons of regrets in my life but that wasn't one of them lol!