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I know most of us have an occasional, really funny thing happen at their work and/or at school and/or in real life in general. After a particularly humorous run at my work, I decided it would be good to have a place on the forums to share the unintentional humor that RL throws our way.

I will start:

First off, I have decided that I must take my Teslas to work with me from now on, since the one day I took them, the computer was really well behaved and then the next day, it was a horrid brat.

Second, at work on Wednesday, we got a bunch of voided checks in...and pieces of checks, more to the point. One was in (literal) pieces, like it had been through a shredder, all these little strips carefully taped down to a piece of paper. An accompanying letter said it has, in fact, been through a junk mail paper shredder.

And then there was the two pieces of a check attached to a Refund Inquiry Form, with an accompanying letter, explaining that the taxpayers child had gotten a hold of said check, torn it into pieces and lost many of the pieces.

The third thoroughly un-cashable check had been through the laundry, according to the accompanying form and its explanation section. The outer two thirds were shredded, the only readable part was the middle third. If I was a banker, I wouldn't have accepted it either.

So, who else has funny work stories to share?

Not that anyone else is posting on this thread but I figured I would post another story anyway, hoping to give people a good laugh.

So Thursday, the power went out for about 10 seconds. 10 seconds of "WTF" and pitch black. 20 minutes of absolute chaos ensued as we tried to get our computers back up and running. The servers entirely too long to reboot. The best/worst part of the situation, our actual customer service phone lines are hard wire, which means that they didn't stop working when the power went out. So it was lots of comments in the vein of "sorry, the power just went out for a few seconds, please bare with me while my computer reboots." Thankfully, computer problems are about as universal as they come and our customers were very understanding.

I'll share a story from my work.

I work at a dog hotel and daycare center, and there is this one dog named Sweetie who is a regular for daycare. She's about 60 pounds and is some sort of hound mix, maybe with some golden retriever or lab in there. She's such a nice girl, certainly lives up to her name, but she gets a little overwhelmed when all the dogs are in the play room together. Now when a dog is acting aggressively towards the other dogs they get kicked out of play. It didn't take Sweetie long to learn to use that to her advantage. When she's had enough and wants to leave she will growl at the nearest dog to get the person on duty's attention. Once she knows you've noticed her being mean her demeanor completely changes. She'll run to the door, ears perked up and wagging her tail, as if to say "I was naughty so I get to leave now, right?" Smart girl, she certainly knows how we work! XD

This was a note left behind the counter of our work place

Today a three year old flipped out and told me "YOUR CAR! YOUR CAR!" I blinked like "What? What's wrong?" "Wet! Gettin' wet." "...My car is getting wet? It's raining. It'll be okay." "It'll melt!"

:'D poor thing thought my car was going to melt



3 year old made the turtle on the left

How funny.

What a cute idea for a project, using pots as turtle shells to decorate.

I work as a shoe expidator in the woman's shoe dept. Of a 'high end department store that has a big red star logo and likes huge thanksgiving parades, and the movie a miracle on 34th street. Basically this means I'm part of the -support team-. /sales team deals with customers, support team deals with merchandise.

I make shoe displays, do stock inventory and audits, fix problems, but mostly pull shoes from stock to be sold by the sales team.

To do this a customer tells a sales person they want a shoe, the sales person has a handheld device that they use to scan the shoe to create a pick list. They send the list via wifi to our computer kiosks in the stockroom, we tap a screen the list prints and we go find the shoes. (There are code numbers etc we use as well as barcoded inventory systems etc).

ANYWAY.

Sometimes the barcodes on the display shoes don't scan so on slow days we or the sales person will just manually find the shoe boxes and scan those to check them out of inventory (via a pull list).

Today a sales woman M did just that, she grabbed two boxes and added them to a pre existing list then sent us the list (total 4 shoe boxes).

She said to me as I'm printing out the list "DONT PULL THE NINE WEST" (Nine West is a brand).

I look at the list of 4 shoes... And say back "BUT THEIR ALL NINE WEST".

DERP. She looks at the list and corrects "not these two, get those two." While laughing.

Still better then working sales!

I think that anything is better than working sales. Wow, just wow.

My fiance had an incident I just have to share. He gets called into a room with his manager to listen to all his phone calls one day because another manager accused him of called a caller a "filthy liar". So his (poor, unfortunate) manager had to listen to all the phone calls my fiance had worked that day. There was only one phone call that it possibly could have happened on and it went something like this.
Person calls in, wondering why a certain credit is being withheld. Said credit, due to a bunch of really obvious parameters, was flagged by our automated system for being suspicious. After much back and forth the caller admits that no, he isn't eligible for the credit but he should still get the extra refund from it. My fiance asks him if he realizes that he just, basically, admitted to fraud. This is usually when the smarter would-be tax fraudsters either say never mind or start blaming it on their tax preparer. This guy...well he keeps going, digging himself deeper and deeper. It is a shame that there isn't a "send to Criminal Investigations" code for a case. Eventually, the caller just gives up and hangs up.

So my fiance's manager and he listen to the call, just to make sure that the manager isn't hearing things and that no, my fiance hadn't called the offending human anything improper. He hadn't. This, however, wasn't the end of it. The poor manager then had to tell his boss what had happened. His boss, the department manager, listened to the story and then asked which line the call had been on. The manager tells him it is the front line identity theft protection/fraud detection phone line. To which the DM responds something to the effect of "then why did anyone care?". This phone line has much looser customer service rules than the rest of our phone lines since it is a fairly unorthodox phone program to begin with since it involves lots of unusual situations and information to tell the good tax payers from the bad.

So we just got informed about thanksgiving-Black Friday.

The store (higher end dept store) I work for...will be open on thanksgiving at 6pm.

*throws hands up*

I'd just like to state for the record, that neither I nor the hubby will be participating in ANY shopping on Thanksgiving Day. I support retail employees right to spend the holidays with their families, without risking losing their jobs. This sucks kai and I'm really sorry. Same goes for any others stuck working "meatgrinder weekend" (aka thanksgiving through black Friday)