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Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

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[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

One day a coworker of mine was walking into our huge office building and thought he saw a mitten on the ground of the lobby. When he picked it up it was actually a pair of lacy women's underwear. Ostensibly it fell out of someone's gym bag or got caught in their pant leg in the laundry and dislodged there. He drops it immediately and comes into the office. He doesn't mention this to anyone.

Two hours later the main receptionist comes in with the underwear in front of our whole group and says she saw him drop these this morning and she wants to return them. He's denying the whole thing and at this point none of us have the previous context and all locked in to the conversation and silent laughing. She says, "We just want to give these back in case they have sentimental value!" and the the whole group is dying laughing now. He eventually convinces her he isn't interested in a stranger's underwear (which she bare handing) to which she says she'll keep them in case he changes his mind (???).

It's been 5 years and it gets brought up nearly daily

[–] mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Does he still work there and does he laugh with you? Otherwise this sounds like bullying

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Funny if they were her panties all along. Turned the embarrassment from "Guess who dropped her panties in the lobby" to " Guess who was playing with panties in the lobby."

[–] Jarlsburg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This adds a whole new dimension to the lore.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone must've summoned Shenron the day before he found them and got underwhelmed by the wish fulfillment.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A coworker aggressively made out with my face at a work event out of town and they stopped letting us put alcohol on our expense reports. I was universally blamed for the policy change and HR tried to send ME to sexual harassment training because it was my fault for socializing with her, apparently!

Direct quote from the HR director: "If you knew she was a sloppy drunk, why did you go out with her?"

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the owners was at a conference with a number of other employees and showed his dick to one of the women. I think she got $100k to resign.

One of the owners came back to the office after a summer party and did coke off of someone else’s desk and left it there. Didn’t hear if they had to do anything for that.

One of the married older owners paid one of the married younger assistants for some in-office sex during the day. Got caught.

One of the married owners got his married assistant pregnant. She left town for about a year.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you work at Pornhub or Wall Street?

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Anticlimactic but back when I was working for an ISP we had a couple portable Honda generators that we used to power gear when the power went out.

We never tested the generators because we were using them every 2 months because Australian power problems.

One time I get to a radio tower and the genny doesn't start, add a splash more fuel in the tank, still no start. Drive back to the office and grab the second one, and return to the radio tower. Second genny doesn't start, but power comes back after a bit.

We took them to a place to be serviced and they each and a different problem, but the third one I didn't grab was perfectly fine.

From then on I did a monthly test on all 3 gennys and they never had a problem.

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Coworker in sales got mad at one of the shipping guys thinking his packing of the pallet was insufficient. They get into a verbal spat until the sales guy walks to his car and pulls his gun on the shipping guy, the shipping guy, who also happened to be a retired marine and allowed by the owner to open carry in the office. Sales guy was lucky the only thing he lost that day was his job.

No shots were fired since the sales guy was stupid but not that stupid. We kind of had a collective "that's not terribly surprising" moment later when the cop was over for the police report and brought up sales guy's past mugshots like "was this the guy".

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most average day in the American workplace? That's just bonkers.

[–] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

No, this is very, very far from normal here.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was working at an assembly plant for plane motors (the big kind) and one of them literally blew up in the test bed. There was chunks literally embedded in the safety glass, it was a huge mess.

Turns out someone left an orange rubber mallet inside of it. Over the course of a year, they reassembled the shredded mallet and traced it back to the toolbox that used it. The guy lost it and instead of reporting it and disassembling his last job, he just stole one from an other toolbox.

Not mine but my buddy used to build kayaks. One of the employees took a dump in one of the kayaks and it only got caught because of a random QC test. I always giggle thinking of the client who would have received it.

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[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Worked on a military base that had a small lake. Against policy, a civilian employee went out fishing during his lunch break, somehow capsized his rowboat and had to be rescued by the on-base fire department. Unsurprisingly, he didn't lose his job over it.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me you're talking about lake bandini (pretty sure thats what we called the lagoon in 29 palms)

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

No, sorry. This was on the east coast. I bet the same story applies to a few different bases though lol.

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[–] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Traded guns for booze in Baghdad. Every NCO and officer involved got removed mid-deployment

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm I guess we have two of different types

1: late into pandemic when inflation was really bad a bunch of the workers were super upset by their wages, management got together to get a solution. The plant supervisor called a meeting and told everyone there would be a "substantial raise", it was $0.20. Less than 1%

The second, more recent, a fire broke out after a maintenance repair went awry. Someone pulled the fire alarm and it failed to work. Someone pulled a second fire alarm, it failed to fully initiate the system. Then on the last attempt it finally went off but the fire suppression system and sprinkler system did go off but not over the actually burning area. This lead to a whole region of the building getting smelted and a big investigation on the fire suppression system. After it was resolved they asked employees to continue working their shift, even in the smoked out areas. The stench was horrible and probably carcinogenic lol

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[–] borf@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We used to go out for drinks after work once or twice a week

Then a guy got so drunk he puked at the bar, got in a fight with another guy and bit his ear off

The guy was immediately fired obviously but we don't socialize like we used to for some reason

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