ohlaphWhat is something crazy that happened at work?
I used to work at a ski resort. The snowmaking system has guns that plug into pedestals that operate at 3 phase 480vac. One night, one of the groomers dropped the grooming tiller blades right onto a pedestal and mangled/shredded the crap out of it. This did not blow the 350a breaker, and it was still arcing the next day.
∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Lucky no one got fried
Proteusanother worker fell over and hit his head on the concrete behind me. while I was checking his pulse, he died. creepiest day ever. and the only thing the company did was take a long lunch due to the EMTs in the work area.
Holy shit that’s tragic.
AdmetusReminds me of those one punch deaths that result in manslaughter, because damn, the back of the head is pretty fragile.
The CEO got high on crack and was on a rampage, knocking shit over, yelling etc. and then shat his pants. It got worse when he saw that he was running out of crack and didn’t have the cash to buy more, so he got online and made an announcement that Unity would be charging per install because he needs the money for more crack and hookers. Crazy day.
The worst part about this is that I’m inclined to believe that this story is real.
Amir I am with you.
Ok serious one. I used to work nightshifts in a gas station. One night, a woman turns up who was beaten by her partner. It’s really something else to see someone’s face that swollen and fucked up. Movies don’t capture it realistically. You can get somewhat of an idea when you watch UFC, but this was another level. Heartbreaking. It’s like her partner was trying to physically dehumanise her, she was really not looking human.
She didn’t have any money so I let her pump $40 gas and she said she would pay it later (she didn’t). I wrote the whole thing down and explained to my boss in the morning. He wasn’t worried about the gas and said sometimes you have to do these things.
I offered to call the police etc but she didn’t want to. It irritates the fuck out of me that people stay with abusive partners. Take care of you and your own, and get rid of anyone in your life who is toxic.
This was in an area where teenagers would turn up at 3am asking to buy lightbulbs, and not the frosted kind.
I’m curious. What’s a lightbulb and not the frosted kind?
A clear one, obviously.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍I think more like this.
The frosted kind you can’t smoke meth out of for some reason.
Do you have any idea what sort of chemicals are in those frosted bulbs? Obviously you can’t smoke meth out of them, it might cause health problems.
I mean, hell we are responsible meth smokers here!
Nicely done. You’re an artist.
There you go haha. I haven’t thought about that. I was thinking this gonna be a sex thing haha
Really cheap crack pipe
Got it. Thank you. I was almost afraid to ask that question.
That’s fucking heart breaking. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for doing what you did. What a good person the boss was.
He was a good dude alright. Gave me a great reference when I left.
Why would people want to buy light bulbs? Are they going to throw them at people?
You can smoke meth out of lightbulbs. Don’t worry, I had no idea either until I asked other workmates about it.
Can’t use the frosted kind, cause thats phosphorus, wouldn’t wanna poison yourself!
oriondConstruction company we made a few foundation pads and the supervisor who was an asshole, came to check the electrical installation conduit, so he pulls his plan and goes to one conduit end that is supposed to go all the way to the other side, so he yells at one of the workers to blow on the other conduit and wants to listen for air coming out on his end.
Guy on the other end blows, nothing happens on this side, the asshole supervisor yells “Blow Harder” so the construction worker obeys and gives a big strong blow on his end. Well nobody saw this coming, someone had urinated in the pipe so all pee comes out and squirts his face in front of everybody.
Since we hated him we were all laughing our souls out of our bodies. :) The supervisor, didn’t say a word and walked away furious.
I caused the loss of multiple millions of dollars in stock of one of the largest manufacturering companies in the world. All because I listened to my boss instead of my instincts. I got fired because the senior foreman “couldn’t stand to look at my face”
We are gonna need more details on this one
Lol, essentially the company closed down a bunch of plants to make one big plant. Dude in question was a foreman at each plant at one point in time. The start new plant, fast forward like six months and I get hired to do IT. The guys has a memory leak issue that we couldn’t track down, so we were gonna reimage the machine. Had to backup data first. The company i worked for forced us to use a singular proprietary tool to do both. I was not allowed to manually back up anything ( like I wanted to, because seriously wtf) Well lo and behold this software doesn’t give a shit about the D partition of the users HDD or anything on it, so it wipes that part. Well that was the part of the drive that had all calibration data, measurements, contacts in the industry. Pretty much the guys black book got wiped. This is literally during first quarter of a merger. I get fired. A few weeks or like a month later I see the company stock took a huge hit because of issues with a merger. I also run into an old coworker at a gas station like 6 months later and she informed me that everything went to shit when I left and they cut the staff by more than half. Over a hundred people lost their job because of my fuck up.
I would hardly call it your fuck up. You wanted to back up the data manually and were told not to - that’s on your supervisor/boss/whoever called the shots. Not on you.
Your not wrong, and definitely not the first person to tell me that. But it still fucked with me for a while. There were a lot of really good people there, just trying to make there way. My actions, whether my fault or not, indirectly caused probably like 150+ people to lose their job, and that’s on the day shift, idk if they even kept the night shift. I know it’s not my fault, but like, I still feel a lil shitty about it, ya know. This was probably 6-7 years ago. Sense then I’ve learned my lesson and never ever keep my mouth shut and make sure I have all concerns documented. Ho boy has it saved my ass.
Did this guy just like… have critical company data not backed up, only on his laptop?
Yup, apparently that’s exactly right lol. I was kinda green on that job so I didn’t realize how wild that was. Thinking back on it, what the fuck?
Thats a massive no-no on the foremans part. If the D drive died, laptop lost/stolen, or some other issue occured, then they would have been in the exact same situation.
No backups on an external drive/server/printed files???
I work in R&D and my ass would be canned if I housed critical data like this, it goes against so many standard policies. The foreman and company screwed up both and made you a fall guy.
Yeah that’s a good point. Now that I’m farther in my career i think it is pretty wild they didn’t have some kinda back up software or network storage for critical stuff. The only reason I can think of is espionage, we were seriously worried about international espionage. I had to do training for it, we had a picture of Smokey the bear in our break room that said " only you can prevent government espionage". Shit, I just remembered the guy (super rough scruffy looking guy) cried over this, literally cried. Maybe he realized it was probably his ass for that too?
They should have had backups long ago
Go on… tell us more please.
At my last job, I worked a few different roles working with adults with developmental disabilities, some with extreme behavior problems. I have lots of stories to share.
One such one was a time when someone ran into my office and was telling me about one of our clients getting stabbed. We followed protocol, separated them, provided aid, called cops, etc.
The way I was told it happened was that the two of them got into an argument over basketball. Then one of them grabs a pencil and fucking stabs the other in the thigh with the pencil.
I remember the cops rolling up and one cop had a shotgun and cocked it as he walked into our gates. It really wasn’t that serious. We got it all under control right after it happened.
I’ve been punched, kicked, and even spit on there. I was also sexually assaulted on numerous times by an older skinny guy. I don’t think he was gay, I think he knew I couldn’t do anything about it and got his kicks off that. He’d grab my butt and tried grabbing my groin over top of my pants sometimes.
I do not miss that fucker one bit.
On a more positive note, I remember some of the more happier times I had. I used to take the guys around the city and lots of places they had never gone before. I wasn’t supposed to, but I didn’t care as long as I was doing stuff they enjoyed and made them enjoy their 8 hours with us. That’s all that mattered to me. One of the guys still asks about me to this day, and I haven’t worked with him in over 10 years. But he was really shy when he first came to the program and we welcomed him in our crew and made sure he always felt apart of everything we did. The other guys took note and even defended him on some occasions when someone would make fun of him. That’s probably my highlight of working there.
he knew I couldn’t do anything about it
Why couldn’t you do anything about it? This shit is never ok. Why not just a quick sack-tap?
One of the guys still asks about me to this day
Awwwwwwww
The agency that oversaw our operations was overly lenient towards them and their behaviors. Their usual go-to was “that behavior is why they’re in your program”.
It was really shitty sometimes the way they just let things slide. And we got paid for each of them being in our program, so higher ups didn’t always want to let go of unruly clients, especially those with really bad behaviors because we’d be paid more to keep them in the program because of those outrageous behaviors.
The most we could do was separate him from me. I couldn’t even suspend him. But I think the bigger thing was him knowing I could never lay a finger on him for the way he would try to touch me. If he had grabbed my groin and I smacked his hand away, I would be the one who would get in trouble. He would just keep going and they would add it to his list of behaviors to work on.
Some clients even had made up stories of abuse and that was enough to let someone go. The only thing that would save the caretaker is if the client had had a history of making similar fabrications and/or the allegation could be proven false like video evidence or something. I remember people being fired purely for accusations that couldn’t be proven or disproven and the person crying innocence. It’s a really shitty thing to happen. You kind of understand and sympathize with the decision, knowing that you don’t want an actual abuser in your midst, but also realizing that some of these people in our care do lie and you’re taking away someone’s ability to feed their family strictly based on hearsay. You’d think people would find better ways of dealing with these situations, but it felt more like they preferred taking the easy route of just terminating someone and being done with the situation.
I can remember another time when a client had accused us of not feeding her. Despite 4 other clients living in the same home and none of them making similar complaints, the overseeing agency sent someone down to investigate. And the woman they sent to investigate had a personal vendetta against me for some reason, always out to get me and I have no idea why. So she opens the refrigerator and freezer and sees it filled with food but writes in her report that the lying client was correct in her accusation. That led to a meeting with one of the executives in the agency overseeing us calling me a liar in front of everyone in the meeting. Someone had taken a picture of the refrigerator but didn’t send me the picture in time so I could use it in defense of myself, so I sat there listening to them berate me about a false accusation. Before this, I had developed a really high reputation in the agency and lots of people knew me as someone who worked hard and treated the clients well and with respect. Now my name had been drug through the mud because of one false accusation.
I was miserable at the end of working there and was eternally glad to be able to escape it all. That agency being a big reason for a lot of the issues I experienced.
Is this you?
Coworker (IT guy) went into a meeting room, turned on the computer, but not the monitor, and then returned to his office. Then he waited for another co-worker to enter the meeting room. The IT guy then remotely connected to the meeting room computer from his desk, logging in as the person in the meeting room - no idea how he got the password. He then made some very strange modifications to seemingly random employees time sheets and left a homophobic email in the drafts of a lesbian co-worker. Then he tried to cover his tracks by erasing some logs, logged out, and went on his merry way.
The changes were noticed the same day and I was asked to investigate. The only reason I looked thoroughly enough to figure it out was because the logs were erased, otherwise I probably would have stopped digging once the CCTV footage and time sheet modification logs matched up. He forgot to wipe the logs of his own machine showing the remote connection to the meeting room PC just before the changes were made.
From what I heard, he gave no reason for why he did what he did. I don’t think he really had one.
radixWeird.
Also, I thought the whole point of logs is that you can’t delete them yourself. They get written to an external place and then they can’t be edited.
You’re thinking of audit logs, few systems are critical enough to warrant that, no system mentioned in the story would typically have audit logs unless we’re talking in the military or similar.
Most users can’t clear their computer logs, but IT techs have a lot more access. I haven’t ever worked somewhere that has any kind of logs that nobody can wipe/delete, IT staff kind of need to be trusted or they can do all sorts of chaos and damage.
What an absolute piece of shit. Could of destroyed someone’s life. I wonder if that was the first time.
TheGreenGolem“Of” never follows could/should/would. Ever.
Should “of” ever follow “would” or “could”?
It could, of course, be done. If you ignored punctuation.
Yeah to be honest I don’t know why I write it like that. I know it’s not right, outlook corrects me almost every day. One of those weird things my brain does, maybe a habit from when I was a kid idk. I do it without realizing.
To extend what TheGreenGolem said, what you have understood as “could of” is actually a contraction of the words “could” and “have” into “could’ve”
I trained a serial killer. Hang on, I’ll link to another comment I made regarding that…
AppoxoDexter?
CrackhappyGlad you clarified that. I was worried about you.
I mean, anything worth doing is worth doing well, right?
morgan423I guess if you’re going to unknowingly interact with a serial killer, being their job trainer is one of the luckiest things you can be. They can’t off you, or else they won’t be able to learn enough to do/keep their job.
Years ago, someone made a meme photo from inside our company and got permission to publish it, but it has no company name in it. It went viral and would have been insane marketing, but it’s too late now. It’s still being reposted on lemmy, reddit, twitter and FB every coupla months. Always gets insane amounts of likes.
Not gunna share the meme?
Not going to give them the marketing now.
If i do, my coworkers/bosses will know who I am and I can see my political opinion and NSFW jokes in my comment history. That would be extremely awkward.