Well.. In the cat thread I was thinking.. what other random things have people had happen at work..

So go for it.. I will chime in when I get off work, or feel like slacking...

 

hmm... last year the construction of a new 30+ story hotel/condo next to my building drilled some anchor holes... and began to fill it with cement..... unfortunately it went into one of the basement levels under some1s desk...

other than that.. the random employee being carted out on a strecher for health reasons...

1 guy few weeks ago got hauld out in cuffs and multiple police twice in 2 days for domestic violence issues

 

Used to run a restaurant and one of the delivery guys unloading the delivery unkowingly tripped the silent alarm that designates an Armed Robbery in progress.

The parking lot filled with cops and swarmed the place. When they got there - everyone was like "Huh, what's goin' on?"

Funny, but expensive. It was $100 per cop car that was dispatched...ouch

 

I have had 17 people try to sneek in to the country in a container on my dock, then watch the FBI go through the container with complete hazmat gear on, they were going through the poop looking for a cell phone because they had to have had help to get out of the container.

 

I wonder if that is considered off network or roaming...

 

I think i am the only weird thing at my work. That is unless you count all the 80 year old men that are constantly telling me how to work on their 42 foot diesel motor homes like their a carburated old pickup or something.

 

lol

 

Coming from a Home delivery job and now a Comcast Cable Installer I have too much weird stuff for this thread to handle but it would make a sweet Coffee Table book. A couple examples would be Cat litter in the crawl space opening, and various Adult (massage) Toys.

 

I can't think of anything weird, but I do have a few things that would fall under the stupid column. As some of you may or may not know, I work as a Supervisor for UPS. On my 2nd day as a supervisor, an employee that was giving me a hard time for "abandoning the union" by getting into management got caught eating a gummy bear from a package that broke open. Little did he know that the head of security just happened to be walking through our building that night and was standing outside the trailer he was loading. He was fired on the spot. haha fired for eating a gummy bear, dumba$$!!
Another time, Chehalis center called me to report that they were finding empty bottles of alcohol in their trailers every night. A few nights later the employee who was loading Chehalis for me at the time asks to use the bathroom obviously ____ drunk! While he was in the bathroom I check out the trailer, and sure enough I found 3 bottles of wine coolers hiding under a few packages Security immediately took him away to take a ____ test or whatever they do to test for alcohol and the next day I had to search for his replacement.

 

I work in an environment where "Weird" is more normal than anything...

Good situation last week...

Guy walks up to me and says, "I haven't seen you lately around here, are you in the program?"

I respond, "No, I'm staff and work with the men here, I've been around here a while"

He says, "Oh, I've never seen you before..."

I respond, "Well, you threatened to kill me last week..."

"Really, I'm sorry about that..."

"ahhh, no problem, you were pretty out of it", I replied...

"Yeah.... I guess, anyways, you got a cigarette?"

"Sorry, I don't smoke...."

Just another day for me....

 

Tim, what do you do??

 

He works at a mission.

 

wow these are all great and makes my normal run of hte mill days look boring and almost sane, like the person who comes in and is looking a a 40,000 dollar truck adn expects to have a 200.00 a month payment with no money down and claims that other dealerships can do it so why can't we??????

that to me is crazy, and oh the occasional homeless person that comes in for breakfast and a pee break then ask for a cigarette on the way out, or the ocasional police chase through our parking lot where recently the guy ran his car from a high speed chase into a telephone pole accros the street from us, then jumps out of his car runs through the parking lot of all the cars here in the dealership, inot the back lot that is completly fencened in and as a last ditch effort runs into the service bays thinking he can elude the like 100 cops that are on his tail in there

but hence just another day in Lake city LOL

 

haha oh man..

 

I work at social services, so it is a mecha for the homeless.
My window over looks a main street thru the city but also overlooks some sketchy alleys.

Other than drug deals here are some of the fun things I see every day:

Homeless people taking craps right on the main road,

Homeless guy getting a bj from a transvestite hooker,

All sorts of buisness men, guys in work trucks, picking up transvestite hooker.

 

ew....

 

I too have seen the kitty litter crawl space (yucky) and drug deals and a house where homeless people would just come and go because the front door was broke so the owner just lived in a room in the back (but he was getting the premium package). Places with no running water but had to have cable.
I had to get out Cable because I kept sleeping with the customers... and they paid me $30000 to leave (lay-offs).

Before that I worked for a Workman's comp investigator. I busted people who think they are getting away with something. Take for instance: a stripper who hurt her knee and couldn't dance but we found out she was dancing at another club. Has your job ever paid for you to get a lap dance?

More then once when working at the music store I was asked about "that song that's on the radio all the time" but they couldn't tell me if it was a guy or a girl singing or any of the lyrics. Then we had a bomb placed outside the back door of our store, a dead body in the bushes and the FBI raid because one of our employees was anti-government. I got out of retail.

How about a Church where you can't pray on the clock.

Come to think of it I have never really worked at some place that wasn't crazy.

 

I am doing an internship right now. Not long after I started working, one of our ex employees that was at the time sueing the company, got arrested for robbing a bank. People were happy.

Oh and he was sueing for, you guessed it, back injury! It was soon dropped since it looked fine when he was doing the robbing.

 

oh my gosh LOL we all have some form or another of a funny story

 

And to think I started this thread over a cat setting off our security system in the warehouse at 2am, so the local cops got to play police.

Well it's about time I chime in...

Our old warehouse was right off the freeway and basically in a whole in the wall building.. It was normal to tell people to leave who were sleeping in their car. Oh the joys of waking someone up by taping on their window with a 6cell mag-lite.

We had a gravel yard as well, about once a month someone would do burnouts and cookies.. Onetime someone did it and it and I just happened to by the door.. Ran out the door with a square point shovel but I missed the car..
Another time we caught someone who just tore up the yard up the street and he said he was going to kill my father and I.. ... bad bad idea. When he awoke he was in the backseat of a Chrownvic.

One night I came into the office to get some paperwork and there was a freaking RV trailer parked by our front door. We had to call the police and such, that was just weird.