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5 Office Horror Stories That Will Make Your Day

mallred — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:28:47 +0000

We’ve all had to deal with our own handful of office mishaps or #EmployeesFromHell, but wait until you read some of these stories that were shared on The Ladders job search platform blog by Monica Torres. We’ve shared some of them here to help your day go by a little faster. Comment below with any of your own office mishaps or #EmployeeFromHell stories and we’ll feature you!

1) A SPELLCHECK SUGGESTION GONE WRONG

Weldon Adams told CBS a cautionary tale about why you should always check what your spellcheck automates. Adams was working in a buttoned-up office as a Certified Public Accountant when he needed to apologize to a big client about the delays in processing. Except in his rush to write the email, he misspelled “inconvenience.” Spellcheck helpfully offered a word suggestion of what it thought he was trying to write.

“I clicked accept without double-checking. And I ended up sending the client an email saying that I ‘apologize for any incontinence,’” Adams said.

Sorry for my inconvenience!

2) THE WRONG DRESS CODE MEMO

Dressing up for Halloween only works when everyone joins you, as one employee who dressed as Star Wars‘ Darth Vader to work found out.

“I went to our meeting room, threw open the door, and marched in with this loud dramatic music,” the BuzzFeed community member, meigana wrote. “Only to realize my meeting had been moved to another room and another department of very serious people I didn’t know were staring at me like I was insane.”

Cue the Darth Vader scene: Nooooooooooooooooooo!

3) A TOILET PAPER ROLL THAT STUCK

Spencer told Business Insider that when he was working as a dishwasher at a for a popular Italian restaurant, he experienced one of the most embarrassing moments of his life. After returning from the bathroom on one of his breaks, he noticed that people were laughing and whispering at him.

“Eventually, I came to the realization that I had a string of toilet paper flapping out of the rear of my pants the entire time. It was so long that it was literally dragging on the ground behind me,” he said. “That was when I first started, too, and so the other workers never let me live it down. I continued to work there for another two years.”

Workplace shame is your co-workers never forgetting who you used to be.

4) THE SICK CO-WORKER WHO REFUSES TO GO HOME

“Currently working with a person who has had a sinus infection since November 2016. That’s right: wet, chunky coughs, nine hours a day, five days a week, for going on ten months,” Reddit user 84th_legislature wrote. “She does not leave the team area for coughing attacks, she just retches up whatever it is and gulps it back down.”

Although the Redditor noted that their workplace was “very flexible with working from home for people with health issues,” the sick co-worker refused to see a doctor or work remotely. Loud coughing is the kind of mundane yet annoying background noise that drives many an employee up the wall.

5) THE PICKY BOSS WITH A SPECIFIC REQUEST

Andrea Meno told Cracked.com that her manager “used to tell us to wear specific colors on specific days. There was no reason for it. It was just so that she knew we were ‘listening.’” This request is one of those nitpicky demands that show a lack of trust in one’s team, and is an everyday nightmare many of us experience.

Share your own stories or check out some more here!

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#EmployeeFromHell: “She would actually go into the garbage and fish it out…”

mallred — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:56:57 +0000

We sure wouldn’t want to be one of the people working under this #EmployeeFromHell!! Here’s another story of an employee that got a little power hungry.

Brutal Betty

“The company I worked for made home furnishings.

The person who was in charge of us, whom I will call Betty, was a really nice woman when we were outside the office.

Inside, she was brutal. She would yell at people all the time and was never, ever, wrong.

She said you could never throw out any food from lunch that you didn’t plan to eat unless you asked her if she wanted it first. Otherwise she would actually go into the garbage and fish it out to see if she wanted to eat it.

One day, she tripped over an extension cord, fell, and broke her hip. As she lay there, screaming in pain (which I can’t fault her for too much, that’s gotta be painful), we called an ambulance.

Just as the EMT’s show up, Betty noticed some dirt on the floor. So she yells at one of my coworkers, Steve, to clean it up. He says, “No problem. I’ll get a broom” and she responds with, “No. Use your hands.”

The EMT leaned over next me and asked, “Did you guys push her?”

So everyone was super excited because we thought it would be Betty’s last day at work. The reign of terror would be over.

But nope. She was back 3 weeks later, with her leg propped up on a chair and one of those little poles with the plastic robot claw on the end. So when people would walk past her, she could reach out and grab them with it.”

This story was found on Reddit and edited for length and clarity.

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When dating a coworker gets messy

mallred — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:35:20 +0000

We all know things around the office can get crazy sometimes, some people are unpredictable.

(Which is why it’s best to make sure your company does a thorough screening of its employees. It saves us all from pulling our hair out. Seriously, that no hair look works for some people, but we want you to keep yours. — so please click on our links above!)

But we found some crazy stories about coworkers dating on Reddit that turned some normal coworkers into an #EmployeeFromHell. Check them out and share your own crazy stories in the comments below for us to post!

Better than speed-dating:

“Where I work, [things get messy with dating]. It’s a seasonal job with a bunch of high school kids about to head into college and a bunch of college kids just trying to make some money over the summer. Everyone dates everyone and then cheats on them with someone else. When it comes time for promotions, we legitimately have to consider who has [dated] who and how that will affect morale and the team. Like, ‘Well, Jane really kicked a– last summer, but she also had that horrible breakup with Jack, and while I think Jack would be fine if we promoted her, Jane might have major issues working with him. Not to mention they both slept with John from maintenance. [It becomes kind of a nightmare]”

Not to mention a bit of logistical headache!

My ice cream > your ice cream:

“I dated a girl I worked with at Coldstone Creamery. I was a new hire, she had been there a couple years. We dated for about three months, then I, as civilly as possibly, broke it off between us. Just wasn’t working out, but I was hoping we’d still be professional about it at work. Well she’s good friends with the manager, and threatens to quit unless they fire me because she no longer feels comfortable with me working at the store. So the manager politely asked me to quit, I did, and then worked at the Marble Slab almost directly across the street. Their ice cream was better than Coldstone anyway.”

Lovers to arch-icecream-enemies. It’s never easy to stay friends afterwards anyway.

Then again, it doesn’t always end badly:

A fast-food Romeo and Juliet:

“I met my boyfriend at Wendy’s. It was awesome. Meeting in the freezer for kisses, winking at each other and just generally stealing glances at each other … we could’ve both been fired, so it felt a lot like a less-romantic, less-dramatic, fast-food version of Romeo and Juliet.”

Their coworkers and boss might not have been too happy with their secret freezer meetings though.

We’d love to hear from you! Share your own in the comments below!!

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