Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.
Creepy guy got fired. Showed up the next day and confronted HR. Idk what went down but they had to call the cops.
There are two that come to mind for me. I work at a big box retailer that sells a lotta different stuff.
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One of our front end managers’ car caught fire randomly one night. I don’t actually know what caused it though but it was kind of a big deal. Thankfully no one was hurt.
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Years ago, we had a frozen stocker who was pretty bad at his job, and was also a racist little shit. He worked with another guy who was a light skinned black dude (who was a very good stocker), and while they were normally fine, one day our terrible stocker got upset over something one day and called him a slur. It wasn’t received well, and some shit went down, but nothing serious at this point.
Now I mentioned that terrible stocker was terrible. Management had reprimanded him a few times already, so on this particular night where he was doing very badly, there was no more room for conversation, so he was fired. The firing manager was this super cool African fella. The firing was not received well, and caused terrible stocker to lose his shit. He stormed out of the office, shouting racial slurs at everyone he saw, and ended up cutting his hand with his box cutter. He then proceeded to smear his blood all over the frozen doors and then ran outside and smeared his blood all over the firing manager’s car. The police were called and he was arrested. No idea what happened to him afterwards. It was pretty wild.
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Years ago when I worked at Taco Bell someone got fired because the manager walked in on him snorting coke off the bags of strawberry they used to put on top of the fruitista freezes in the walk-in.
Also some asshole pulled a gun in drive thru during my shift because he ordered extra cheese on his 7 layer nachos and apparently did not get adequate cheese.
I can relate with the second one. No matter what taco bell I order at asking for extra anything is like pressing the ‘close doors’ button on an elevator in the US, it’s pointless.
Pulling a gun on someone for that is unhinged, but feeling irked or disappointed is understandable. I just order from the app now and buy the sauce bottles at the grocery store, and order a nacho cheese cup separately if I want extra.
asking for extra anything is like pressing the ‘close doors’ button on an elevator
Except for sauce packets. I don’t ask for extra & I get an imperial standard fuckton of sauce packets every time. I think if I asked for extra they’d take it as a challenge and just fill a separate bag.
God, opposite here. I want lots of Diablo sauce, they give us three. We ask for tons, we get four.
I can relate with the second one. No matter what taco bell I order at asking for extra anything is like pressing the ‘close doors’ button on an elevator in the US, it’s pointless.
From a recent trip. They weren’t even extra ones I ordered, they were just supposed to come with the order. IDK if they’re taken out of the employee’s paychecks or what because damn.
A guy at a place I worked at got fired for smoking weed in the bathroom. I overheard him getting fired. This was a small business, (but “under 100 employees” small, not 3 people small) so the owner fired him personally. He said something like, “I don’t care if you smoke weed. I don’t even care if you smoke weed in your car on your lunch break if you do your job. But you really smoked weed in the bathroom?”
Guy was up on a mezzanine installing rubber roofing (I work in an RV factory), suddenly either seized or fainted or had a stroke, nobody’s really sure, fell off the catwalk and landed on his head 19ft below on concrete. Died immediately. It happened maybe 50ft from my workstation.
The company suits came by to sing kumbaya and tell us how we’re all a “family”, took a single day of production off (so they could clean the blood up, presumably) and production started back up as normal. He had been working there for 25 years.
That’s rough. He should have definitely been clipped onto the railing with a safty harness on.
An IT contractor at my government job was one of the people that tried to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.
big gretch! she’s so cool. looks like she could command a battlestar.
stressed out researcher tried to get a temp to ship out biological specimens by fedex.
Like standard mail fedex? No special packaging or anything?
yup on standard fedex. I mean packaged up well on our end but still something that is a crime.
I hurt my back working today. That was an incident.
A coworker aggressively made out with my face at a work event out of town and they stopped letting us put alcohol on our expense reports. I was universally blamed for the policy change and HR tried to send ME to sexual harassment training because it was my fault for socializing with her, apparently!
Direct quote from the HR director: “If you knew she was a sloppy drunk, why did you go out with her?”
Wow that’s fucked man. What happened to you?
My idiot friend told his boss about it and she reported it on my behalf. I told them I didn’t want anything done about it but they sent me through the HR grinder anyway and I quit like 6 months later for a shit job. Good times, kinda ruined my life for 8 years
My company called all lab staff “pandemic heroes” for coming in every day during the pandemic and taking on extra work to compensate for management and office staff who stayed home for years.
Then shortly after return to office, they closed the lab and laid off all lab staff.
Sounds like your company took the Veterans Affairs approach to “hero response”.
Worst part is that they did it mostly to boost the IPI right before we went public by driving down operating costs.
We weren’t even able to buy in u til 6 months after going public and the price leveled off at 6 months
Coworker in sales got mad at one of the shipping guys thinking his packing of the pallet was insufficient. They get into a verbal spat until the sales guy walks to his car and pulls his gun on the shipping guy, the shipping guy, who also happened to be a retired marine and allowed by the owner to open carry in the office. Sales guy was lucky the only thing he lost that day was his job.
No shots were fired since the sales guy was stupid but not that stupid. We kind of had a collective “that’s not terribly surprising” moment later when the cop was over for the police report and brought up sales guy’s past mugshots like “was this the guy”.
Most average day in the American workplace? That’s just bonkers.
It happens but not as often as our public image would make you think. Most people who own guns/carry are responsible.
No, this is very, very far from normal here.
We had a 2 drinks limit at company after hours gigs. Not that bad, but it was apparently because someone drank a bunch and then walked onto a highway. There was also the time the FBI came into the building to ask about a sales guy who took part in 1/6.
One of the owners was at a conference with a number of other employees and showed his dick to one of the women. I think she got $100k to resign.
One of the owners came back to the office after a summer party and did coke off of someone else’s desk and left it there. Didn’t hear if they had to do anything for that.
One of the married older owners paid one of the married younger assistants for some in-office sex during the day. Got caught.
One of the married owners got his married assistant pregnant. She left town for about a year.
Do you work at Pornhub or Wall Street?
Porn Street
We used to go out for drinks after work once or twice a week
Then a guy got so drunk he puked at the bar, got in a fight with another guy and bit his ear off
The guy was immediately fired obviously but we don’t socialize like we used to for some reason
You ever have alcohol just hit harder than expected? I was out at a work party. I can’t remember what it was for. It was a small office. Less than 10 total people including the three owners.
I only had two drinks but I must not have eaten anything that day because I was fucking wasted. The office manager had to drive me home in the middle of it. So we fucked at my place. Nothing was ever said after. I worked there another few years. Eventually had a 3-way with the office manager and my future wife.
10/10 would do again.
I was supervising filling in a pit we had dug on the edge of a forest. We had dump trucks coming in dumping gravel. One particular driver wasn’t great at his job and there had been issues with him in the past.
That driver came in and dumped his gravel, but then he drove off with his bed still raised and almost immediately smashed into electric lines that ran off into the forest. One telephone pole even snapped at the base and fell over.
Within 30 seconds multiple cops came speeding onto the job site. It turns out those electric lines ran to a radio tower in the woods that ran the police radio. The idiot in the dump truck had taken out the police comms for the whole town.
Note: if you’re planning a crime in that town, you only have to cut one wire to disable all police communication.
That’s some lacking infrastructure
I knew some people who would in a small jurisdiction have a friend go far from where they were doing crimes and light off a bunch of pop-pop-pop fireworks to draw police attention away from the less attention grabbing thing they were doing
Allegedly
This is why we shld bury our lines, much more effort to dig down six feet than get a ladder and snip
Or use mobile phone networks.
A wild backhoe appears!
What does a network engineer bring on a hiking trip in the woods? Water, snacks, extra sunscreen, a first aid kit, bug repellent, bear spray … and a folding shovel and a piece of fiber-optic cable.
(What’s the fiber for?)
Well, if you get lost in the woods or need to be rescued, you take the shovel, dig a trench, put the fiber in it, bury it … and within an hour, someone with a backhoe will show up to tear it up. Then you can just follow the backhoe tracks back to civilization.
It used Dig! It’s Super Effective!
And this is how a micro quake severed our T1 line from LA to Phoenix and shut the network down in our office for a week.
Honestly never thought of that, sounds like there would need to be some sort of protective channeling, with space to allow some shifting
Buried lines of all kinds are frequently severed by excavators because their position isn’t properly or fully documented.
The best set up I ever saw was a sewer tunnel, almost 12 feet tall, that handled all the services. From sewage to water to electricity to data; it held everything and was trivial to maintain and run new lines in.
line sounds like a really interesting idea, although I feel like documenting where you put things should be a basic task. Probably why it’s not done properly
You’d be surprised, how fragile critical infrastructure often is. There was an incident in Europe a few years ago, where a single miscalculation in a planned power line shutdown almost caused the entire European grid to split.
It slowed down a bit, and then we quickly learned that maintaining the perfect 50hz wasn’t actually necessary anymore. Few people still have clocks that depend on it
I’m not talking about the incident in Romania, but in Germany.
A shipyard needed some wires over a river deactivated and that caused an overload cascade, because the river was the border between two providers who had different assumptions about the capacity of the power lines connecting them.
oh damn, ain’t something. I will be looking into that, thank you!
Clocks, true.
Computer systems in general, however, will start acting very squirrelly outside of an approved MHz range. Wall warts and power supplies can handle only so much deviation from the norm. It’s why high-end UPS systems do power conditioning to provide a pure sine wave.
No worries we’re talking like 49.9995 hz
That’s some lacking infrastructure
They probably had plenty of infrastructure for normal operations.
What they were lacking was a BCDR plan.
…which includes having backup lines or a more robust installation. Police officers aren’t engineers or system administrators for public infrastructure.
You’re right tho, a backup alone would not be sufficient
Couldn’t they sell a few of their spare MRAPs to buy a backup generator and a redundant microwave link? Sheesh.
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.
Can’t fire him; you have to keep the best and the brightest on your team! /s
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.
