Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.
We had a manager get fired because he slept with two of our servers and gave them both chlamydia.
The worst part was they weren’t gonna fire him for that but because one of the girls was only 17 💀
As a software engineer, I really thought an EM had found a way to fuck an EC2 instance before I read your second sentence. But yeah what a scumbag.
That’s hilarious.
I’ve edited for clarification now lol
Dude, you should already know the the service industry is the most debauched, depraved environment you can imagine. 99% of the people who work there are raging alcoholics and coke/meth addicts. There’s no way in hell I’d ever let any 17 year old female relative work at any restaurant. Period.
FBI seized the website and shut the company down.
For some reason I envisioned FBI dudes in body armor bursting in and pointing their rifles at a poor server rack in the closet.
Gambling?
megaupload
Rare Pepe archive
Worked at a place where our CIO was completely unqualified to be a leader, much less a leader in IT. She was a micromanager who took the position of “telling stakeholders” instead of “working with stakeholders” so any project she was on was really her pushing through whatever agenda she had at the time. Meanwhile her deputy CIO was stealing computer equipment from the server room but I digress…
April fools one year and I decide to prank it up. I moved the hinges (not the door handles) of the freezer/fridge in the breakroom so that the handle and hinges were on the same side. It’s a fifteen minute job to move everything so I did it the night before the 1st.
The next morning our hungover CIO stumbles into the breakroom and cannot get the fridge to open. After a few seconds of futile tugging on the handle, she gave up and took her lunch to her office.
Others in the office figured it out pretty quickly and had a good chuckle.
Later on that day CIO sends out a nastygram about pranks being unprofessional, property damage, someone was going to be in huge trouble, yadda yadda…
But she’s not the director. The director tells her to basically fuck off, it was a funny prank, and perhaps she needed to lighten up.
She never found out it was me.
Ha!! As an appliance repair guy i learned about reversing the door hinges+handles a long time ago. It never occurred to me to use it for a prank until i was living in my apartment for a few years, and realized it really would make more sense to reverse the hinges to open the door the other way. I moved the hinges, but then it occurred to me that i can leave the handles where they were and prank all my friends when they came over. Unsurprisingly, it works! People usually would figure it out eventually but sometimes we had to intervene if they were getting too rough with it.
I got so used to having it set up that way that once in a blue moon I’d go to open other people’s refrigerators the wrong way (not the best look for a repair tech, LOL)
I work in a family owned grocery store. Living inside or around the store right now is:
- Opossum
- Skunk
- Feral cat
- Mice
-
Feral cat
-
Mice
More like feral Garfield.
I suspect some cats know that if they eat only some of the mice, there will be more mouse babies before too long.
-
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.
Please tell me you’re talking about lake bandini (pretty sure thats what we called the lagoon in 29 palms)
No, sorry. This was on the east coast. I bet the same story applies to a few different bases though lol.
Can’t fire him; you have to keep the best and the brightest on your team! /s
Shorts got banned because ceo saw someone’s balls.
Real question was why they were looking so closely at that workers crotch while we were in chairs
Blame the idiots who are buying short shorts again. Probably the same idiots who buy skinny jeans.
cursed Chubbies, they look so good but they hold so little
Wow and if your balls are low enough to be visible you know it’s got to be hot, thus proving the necessity of shorts!
But yeah, some humans have balls and sometimes you’ll see them, get over it. I hope no one tells this ceo about breasts.
Wasn’t that they were low, more the angle he was at let him see up the crotch
Depends. Had a client pull a knife on me once, and another dragged me around the facility for an hour while he tried to break down a door to “kill” another client because he had stolen the change from a $5 Taco Bell gift card.
The other incident being was a coworker harboring one of the fugitive kids at her house with her like…6 children while her husband was away in Nebraska for work. Randomly saw her in family court a year later while I was working another job, hopefully while her husband fights her for custody of the kids…
A productive team member was heard giving their daily stand-up report during their team’s daily stand-up…
To another company. Oops! Don’t forget to mute your mic if you’re working two jobs at the same time!
Hahhahhahahahahaha
Double dipping~~
Was it good?
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
A similar thing to the first point happened at my old company.
When it became clear that working from home won’t go away, management came up with some new and actually reasonable rules, that basically allowed 100% wfh, if the team was okay with it.
Now, here in Germany east/west differences are still pretty stark. So someone asked “sooo, I’m in the East, get a low wage, but work with a team from the West. If my neighbor would start working for the same team, formally at an office in the West, but 100% from home, he’d get West wages”. Management didn’t address that at all, so a bunch of people (including myself) just said fuck it, quit and now earn way better wages working from home.
That’s wild! In the states there’s a similar issue with cost of living being vastly different in different areas of the country. I have a family member who does financial stuff for business but works from home. They ended up having to get a postal mailing address in a higher cost of living area so they could get fair wages since their normal address would make business offer only real low wages. It’s asinine
Holy shit do you not have any fire inspectors? Would you describe your local and state governments as “Republican”, or “very Republican”?
I’d actually describe them as Blue/non-designated, it feels red-leaning recently with some of the stuff they are passing though
The fire department comes and checks stuff out really only when there’s an issue. We do have test fire alarms though they never use the fire suppression system, mostly only the noise alarm. I’m unsure if they pull the same one or random ones for the test but either way, it wasn’t good enough apparently.
And this is why we need unions.
I’m definitely pro union, my work did almost go union actually! But we just follow a union contract that another workplace has from their union. For the most part I think its the best of both worlds, but if they keep aggravating people we aren’t too far away.
I’ve been following what’s been going on unionwise all very the USA and I’m kinda pumped about it
That’s complicated to answer in my case, as nobody gets along (I’m one of the few people with a relatively stable work relation), so there’s an incident everyday, though there are also occasional ones that stand out a lot. I for some reason have a lot of bad rep without any actual cause for it and remember people storming into our operations more than once and demanding I be exiled from the place. There are two types of people in this situation whenever it has happened: those who are almost about to oblige and fulfill their wish, and me who calls authorities and ends up dealing with the situation before they can do so before everyone just forgets all that happened.
I bet you have done good stories about that
It depends on what you mean by good, as they aren’t things I like to think happen to me often, though one consistent theme reveals itself out of it, even when merely talking about it.
I was one of the assistant managers at a restaurant and we hired a new head general manager. I guess the owners didn’t vet her very well because she worked for them before and they were happy to have her back.
The shenanigans started with her asking to take a loan out of the petty cash to help cover her move to the area. Then she starts buying us new equipment with her own checks and reimbursing herself with the cash from the safe.
Soon after, we start getting calls from home Depot and everywhere else she bought the equipment from. Turns out her out of state checks were for an account that was closed. The district manager came and told her about the situation and that she needed to pay out ALL back ASAP. After he left, she said she needed to run an errand and we still don’t know what happened to her after that, besides hearing some rumors about a meth habit.
We had another manager at a different location that was supposed to take a $2 or $3,000 deposit to the bank. We probably should have specified which account to put it in, because it never made it there. We never saw that person at work again.
On a Saturday evening, a couple of guys were out mudding in their personal trucks. One truck got stuck badly in some mud with the consistency of Elmer’s glue. The second truck tried to pull it out and ended up equally mired.
Someone had keys to the work truck which had a winch on the front. They brought the work truck out to the stuck trucks, now in the middle of the night, and freed them using the winch. The trucks were so stuck that even the winch struggled, and blew out. When told to rewind, it limped back to a position approximating being rewound but the cable was a mess and clearly the winch was toast.
The work truck was taken to a self-service truck wash and everyone present hosed all of the mud off it, leaving it immaculately clean. The truck and keys were returned to their proper spots.
On Monday morning, everyone went to work and was shocked (shocked!) to find out that somehow, mysteriously, the winch on the truck was in bad shape and needed to be replaced. The boss was suspicious but decided not to ask questions he didn’t want answered.
That must’ve been life before cheap security cameras.
Jason spilled a barrel a barrel of ink and fell in it. 🤣
One of the two bosses didn’t turn up for work one Friday. On the weekend, we all received a call that he had died.
Monday was horrible. We had new starters that came into an office full of people crying, and people from our HQ joining to set people up with any counselling.
The worst part? We had deadlines to meet, and clients didn’t give a fuck that the person responsible had died. One large client outright said to me on the phone on that first Monday “that’s sad and all, but I don’t really give a fuck, have it done by end of day”. To HQ’s credit, after I had told them they asked me to stop what I was doing (had already delivered the work) and our CEO called them and told them we were to terminate our contract with them. One woman I worked with, a Project Manager, was repeatedly brought to tears by clients checking on work or trying to sort out meetings with a guy that was in a morgue. I was able to power through, up until the day of his funeral when we all went to the pub after and saw his children playing without a care in the world.
Initially, it brought us all closer together, but within three months people started to leave - and by the end of the year the HQ decided to just close the office entirely, firing everyone that was still there.
I hate to say it, looking back, but this gave me without question one of the best answers for behavioural interviews in tech, since I ultimately ended up having to help deliver everything and onboard people in a stressful scenario. Knowing the guy, it’s what he would have wanted.
Why do people constantly ask this question in this community? I swear this gets asked at least weekly. 🤦🏻♂️
Karma farming isn’t a thing here. Yet people seem happy to groundhog day the hell out of it…
Maybe people just enjoy reading the kinds of replies that these kinds of questions tend to garner?
No doubt you’re right, as everyone seems to be replying in good faith.
I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, so to speak, but if this kind of thing is popular, maybe the mods could create a weekly thread for it?
I’ll be honest with you chief, I’ve been on Lemmy pretty chronically for the last year and a half and this is the first one of these I’m seeing
I mean I could be going mad… uh, chief… but I could have sworn it was this community. My mistake, apparently.
Perhaps I got the community wrong, but not about this question appearing repeatedly on Lemmy. 🤷♂️
