Absurd Workplace Stories
Users share personal anecdotes about dysfunctional workplaces, including incompetent coworkers, bizarre management practices, and absurd situations they encountered at past or current jobs.
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I had a job like that once:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh1tW16V-8
I've had co-workers like that.
I made the mistake of doing that at work
This reminds me of an observation I made while out at lunch one day. I was at a local restaurant having lunch and realized that two tables away, there were some of the ladies who were janitors at my work. After a couple of minutes of over hearing them talk about my work place, they were pretty outspoken, one of them said "....and they just sit there and stare at the screen all day......and they get paid all this money - I don't get it...."
That pretty much sounds like my workplace in action.
CEO of a previous employer was working there and brought me in to fix shit
Makes me feel like a chump for not taking advantage when I worked there.
this happened recently at my place of work
Yes, I've had this happen at a place I had worked for.
Good Lord, are you me?Or at least did you work with me? Exactly that same thing happened at a place I used to work at, about three or four years back.I hope you worked where I worked and we're just ships passing in the night, and not that this story is just so common.