Just look at these bad days I found at ratemyjob.com:
"I'm an X-ray technologist, so I
know!! Just imagine how many household items can be inserted into your rectum, and
then add a few more to that list."
"I was
working at a Mexican restaurant last year. One night this guy comes in and is
visibly perturbed, but he orders a carne asada and everything seems fine. His
waiter brings him the steak and a cheesy steak knife to cut it with. The guy
inspects the steak asks for a bigger knife, so his waiter grabs a sturdier
steak knife with an eight inch blade. The guy says no, I need a bigger knife.
So the waiter goes to the kitchen and grabs carving knife. The guy, still
unsatisfied, demands an even bigger knife so his waiter goes back to the
kitchen and gets him what could be easily be mistaken for a machete; a carving
knife with a blade at least a foot long. The guy eats his steak and then when
he comes up to pay he grabs the waiter, the guy who brought him the knife, and
holds the knife to his ribs screaming about his steak being overdone. He was
clearly deranged. Another waiter tackles this lunatic and we call the police."
"About three years ago I worked weekends at a bar. It was an upscale gay bar and
we usually had a good crowd. As a barback, I was pretty low on the totem pole
and spent my nights running cases of beer from the basement up to the bar.
Well, one night, we were pretty
busy. As I was coming up the basement stairs (employee only area), an older
gentleman opened the door and began walking down. I didn't have the time to
stop him at the moment and sometimes the owner's friends would go down to the
basement to use their phones or whatever.
I told my friend and coworker
about it and he kinda brushed it off. I kept up with the rush until I needed to
run more beer. I asked my coworker to come with me in case the man was still
down there (I'm a woman, by the way, and I got a weird vibe from the guy).
We
descended the staircase together and turned the corner. At this point we could
see straight back into the liquor storeroom. The man had
stripped naked, borrowed a Kahlua bottle and was just sitting there drinking
it.
"I worked in a mailroom right out of college for a
fairly large company. We often times had Overnight, Next Day AM packages that HAD
to be there or apparently the world would explode. I was responsible for
getting these to the drop boxes before pick up time, which means I had to take
them with me when I left work and drop them off.
One Friday, we had one of these urgent letters. Left work and
completely forgot about it. It sat in my car all weekend. Got to work the next
Monday, the CFO and several upper management were literally freaking out because
the letter didn’t arrive (got yelled at, etc.). It apparently was a half a
million dollar check that this company was waiting for or they were going to
take some kind of legal action or something. It
turned out fine, but I wanted to die at the time."
"I work at a pet store. I accidentally threw a snake
away. I was cleaning the bedding and didn't see him buried in his. I dumped it.
2-3 days later my department manager brought it back to me after finding it in
the receiving garbage. Somehow I didn't get in trouble. Snake was fine."
"I used to work manufacturing large televisions. The
company had just received a shipment of 50 104" screens from a vendor. A
brand new employee was charged with transporting and stacking them. Just as he
stacking the 50th screen it slips out of his hands. It falls and shatters all
50 screens. In his first 4 hours of work he manages to destroy more than $2
million in material and set back production by weeks."
"Found a lighter in my pocket while standing in my boss'
office at the deli I worked at. I
was bored. I had to run
past the entire deli counter screaming to get to the sink when I lit my shirt
on fire. There were at least 15 customers in line."
"I worked as a student in a bank-agency. I wasn't 18 yet, so I wasn't allowed to be at the front desk (some
insurance-issues), basically I was doing paperwork in the back. Once, a
customer wanted to enter, but one can't just walk into a bank, you have to ring
a bell, and have an employee open the door for you by pressing a button under
the front desk. Long story short, he rang, all employees were busy, so I went to press the
button. I check under the desk, s---, 3 buttons. The man was looking at me,
looking pretty pissed by the waiting-time, so I just press a random button.
Turns out it was the alarm button."
"I was working on one of those TV shows where you do stupid
things in public and film people’s reactions. In the skit we were doing, a man
would be jogging with a stroller containing a life-like baby doll, and I was
going to hit him with a car. The jogger was wearing bright green (they dress
funny on these shows so that you don't mix up the cast with pedestrians). So I'm cruising up to the stop sign in a beat up old ford, my adrenaline is
really pumping (this was my first time actually being involved in a skit). I
see the bright green jump suit, and I gun it.
I hit the wrong guy. It was just some dude jogging with his kid. I realized
what happened when the guy I hit didn't jump onto the hood the way you're
supposed to in these stunts. I honestly don't remember anything about the
incident after that, I was in shock. The dad had a few broken bones, the baby
was fine. Needless to say there was a huge settlement payed out. I'm currently pursuing
an unrelated career."
"Firefighter-Paramedic/Nurse here I am going to list a
few. Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I have been doing this for 12 years
(Fire/Medic 10 Nurse 3). In no particular order:
Dropped A Newborn Baby. What it sounds like really, as soon
as the sucker popped out she was quite slippery fell out of my hands right onto
an ambulance floor as I was handing her to my partner. In the end it was okay,
but the mother almost literally murdered me (understandably of course).
Kicked a Cardiac Monitor/Defibrillator into a pool during a
Cardiac Arrest. The patient was pulled from a pool, and as equipment was
getting shuffled around the monitor got moved I inadvertently kicked it, and it
ended up at the bottom of a pool. They cost about 20K each. Luckily there was
another one there.
Destroyed a Garage Door by driving a ladder truck thru it
while it was closing. I was backing up my spotter wasn't paying attention
someone closed the garage door, and it was destroyed.
Set fire to a Fire Engine. I was the acting officer that day,
meaning the regular Captain on our engine was out "sick". Our engine
got placed in a back alley adjacent to a structure which was on fire, the
Operator/Driver had just been cleared (my mistake was not realizing this,
because this wasn't my regular station, and while I had worked with the crew
before didn't know it was literally this kid’s first day cleared to
drive/pump), and his placement put the engine very close to said burning
structure, albeit far from the fire if that makes sense. The cab windows were
down, one thing led to another and half of the interior of the cab was on fire.
Luckily we took care of it fairly quickly."
The next 2 are from thoughtcatalog.com:
First time using the phones at work, I accidentally hung up on a girl who
wanted to compliment how well the customer service was when she shopped there.
I felt horrible.
I am a chef. One time a few years back this young kid
on the line left his knife in an awkward position and went for a smoke break.
My dumbass grabbed the knife from the blade end and nearly sliced my fingers
off. I started bleeding profusely all over the cutting board and salad station.
A bus boy drove me to the nearest hospital where I had to take a drug test and
receive 9 stitches. The owners of the restaurant paid for everything and I got
a month off of work paid. It was probably one of the dumbest things I had ever
done. I needed the break, though.
But this one may top them all:
Ronald
Gerald Wayne co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Wayne
worked with Steve Jobs at Atari before he, Jobs, and Wozniak founded Apple
Computer on April 1, 1976. Serving as the venture's "adult supervision"
Wayne drew the first Apple logo, wrote the three men's original partnership
agreement, and wrote the Apple I manual. He soon, however, sold his share of
the new company for a mere $800. As of March 2017, if Wayne had kept his 10%
stake in Apple Inc., it would have been worth over $75.5 billion.
Be careful out there!!----fishducky
