Weird things that happen to you at work... - Page 3

Crimson Ghost · 04-29-2006, 02:18 AM

I used to work at "Ramsey Outdoor". The Paramus store was in "The Sopranos". I was in the Ramsey store.

One day, two guys drive up in a Jeep, walk to the canoes, pick one up, and walk out. As they passed the cashier, they held up a pink piece of paper, announced that they that the purchace order, and to have a good day. The next day, the manager wanted to know where the hell the canoe was. Turns out that all these guys had was a piece of pink constuction paper. And we laffed, and laffed, and laffed. And the cashier applied for unemployment...

zippyt · 04-29-2006, 02:20 AM

weird shit , well ,,,,,

Once I saw a box break open and various body parts fell to the floor ,
Once I was crawling around in what I thought was mud , later I found out there was a broken sewer mail neer by ,
More than once I have been drawn down on ( with a fire arm ) ,
Once I had to have Sherif Deputies with me to do my job ,

Shall I continue ????

plthijinx · 04-29-2006, 10:42 AM

there's this dude that argues and yells at the crosswalk lights here in downtown houston. very strange. the dude is always dressed well so i don't think he's a bum. funny as shit, though. when the X-walk light is white he either preaches to it, shouting of course, or screams about the gubmint. guess it depends on what kind of mood he's in that day. funny thing is that when the walk light changes to don't walk (red) he stops yelling at it! everyone that works downtown and spends anytime outside knows of him. depending on what day of the week it is dictates what street he's on. yesterday was Travis street day. Monday will be Louisiana steet day. dude is a beer or two short of a six pack.

Stormieweather · 04-29-2006, 11:21 AM

I worked in a family pizzeria for several years as a second job. Some of the customers there would amaze you!.

Anyway, there was one lady that would come in the instant we opened (10:30 am). She was always attired in fairly decent clothing, but messy and dirty. She wanted to buy two slices of pizza and would question me as to whether they were freshly made or leftovers from the day before. I'd reassure her that we never served anything from the day before and all our pizza's were just made. She'd hand over her money ($3.14 worth) and it was always filthy, mangled change that had obviously been salvaged off the ground. Then she'd disappear into the ladies room and take a bath. Literally. 15 minutes later she would reappear, damp and shiny, and take her pizza. We'd then have to go mop up the restroom.

Another lady in her mid-30's would come in to eat once in a while in the mid-afternoon. Luckily, that was when there were few or no customers about. She was a bit overweight and always dressed as a streetwalker might...short shorts with her butt cheeks showing, see thru blouses with no bra, rolls of fat showing around the edges of her too tight clothing. She would order an entire pizza and a pitcher of coke and sit at a booth near the back of the restaurant. Now this is where things got weird. She would talk out loud to herself, as though she were having a conversation with an invisible person. Sometimes these conversations were mumbled and sometimes they were vehement. She would toss her long hair over her shoulder in a flirtatious manner and she constantly squirmed around on the bench. It appeared at times as though she was playing with herself, but none of us wanted to get close enough to verify that for sure. This would last a very long, uncomfortable 90 minutes or so, then she'd pay and saunter out.

Then there was the kitchen helper that was always drunk. He would drop the change, lean down to pick it up and bump the register drawer on his way up..exploding all the change out and onto him and the floor. He got very belligerant at times with the customers and/or employees. He rode a bicycle and would wobble away when his shift was over. Needless to say, he didn't last long.

Fun, fun.

I miss that place!

Stormie

Spexxvet · 04-29-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

So I work at a bank...and i'm on the teller line. This old man just belched in my face. A raunchy nasty belch and didn't even say excuse me. Gross!

What weird things happen to you guys while you are at work?

I've been fitting glasses right across a desk from more than one old gal that let one fly...and they don't even miss a beat.

Recently we had the waiting room chairs steam cleaned because they smelled of urine.

Trilby · 04-30-2006, 05:34 PM

I'm going to flunk my linguistics test. I just wanted to say that and I didn't want to start a whole new thread.

Clodfobble · 04-30-2006, 05:50 PM

He is, but spoken for by a different person now.

Quote:

That's not what I meant! I meant that April would come to my workplace and I would get laid depending on the circumstances.

MaggieL · 04-30-2006, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

He is, but spoken for by a different person now.

So it would appear. The previous incumbent going poly would have been the other possibility. A visit to Syc's site has been informative.

elSicomoro · 04-30-2006, 06:46 PM

Yeah...there have a been a few minor changes in Sycamoreland over the past year.

Hagar · 05-03-2006, 07:39 AM

Ok... a couple of years out of college, I worked as junior office monkey at a real estate rental office. Most rents then were paid in cash over the counter, so much of my time was just taking and receipting rents. My other main job was property inspections, to see that tenants were looking after the landlords' properties. You often see weird shit during property inspections. You never see people in the same light after seeing some folks personal lives.

Legally, we had to issue a written notice to the tenant seven days before the inspection, so they could get their shit together and clean.

Anyhow, one woman, who rented a nice modern house, always paid on time, and had been no trouble at all, took offence at the idea of an inspection. And by "took offence", I mean she went apeshit. She came barrelling into the office screaming about how "no one was coming into her house" and that she had a gun and would shoot anyone that came near the place.

We were pretty cool about it all, withdrew the initial notice, notified the owner, who naturally freaked out and insisted we get in there as soon as possible and then begin proceedings to get her out of his house.

So we issued the required inspection notice again. Nutcase tenant comes in to our office, brandishing the notice, more threats, real psycho stuff too. It became a patten over the next few weeks, psycho spotted on the street, all the office girls vanish leaving poor old monkeyboy to deal with the homicidal tenant.

I copped many an earful, colorful threat and poor character description.

The rental dept. manager, decided it was time to "out-bitch" the bitch. Sadly, this was well within her abilities. She called in a favour with the local copshop, and, a couple of weeks later, we conducted not only an inspection, but a firearms search of the premises. This involved two officers, both with drawn sidearms, and a secondaries in ankle holsters, wearing bullet proof vests with big metal plates slotted down the front. We were required to wait about 100 metres up the street until an entry was secured.

This shit fully freaked me out. This is Australia. We don't have guns (mostly). I literally don't know anyone who openly owns a gun. We used to muck around with air rifles in school, but that's about it. So to see several guns in one day (including the shotguns in the boot of the police car) was full on.

As it turned out, the property was no Waco wannabe. It was neat and undamaged, there was a convertible BMW parked in the garage, there were no guns. To this day I still don't know what the issue was.

Psycho stopped paying rent from that day. It got rather ugly (financially) for the owner after that. But we got her out in the end.

I so hope her husband's got a shed.

Wow, what an essay! If you've read all that you've done well!

Kitsune · 05-03-2006, 08:05 AM

Very impressive, all of you! We need a "weird things I've seen" thread, since working in the office I do means no real interesting stories.

KinkyVixen · 05-03-2006, 11:11 AM

we can add weird things seen to the title too if you want....all stories are welcome!

wolf · 05-03-2006, 01:22 PM

Yesterday was credible death threat day at work.

The threatener did not show up on the property, but I kept a very close eye on the sight lines. Today, I'll be going in with the binoculars.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-03-2006, 09:59 PM

Against whom? Any and all?

wolf · 05-04-2006, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Against whom? Any and all?

One of the docs, specifically, the facility in general since the threat includes busting his wife out. He's known to have a license to carry, actually rambles about it, but it's not known whether he has any firearms. I spent a lot of time talking to him the other night, and made my extreme unimportance very clear to him.

The vehicle has been spotted on the property several times, and someone may have seen him in a different vehicle.

I have fine bullet resistant glass, although I'm not solely relying on it.

04-29-2006, 02:18 AM	#1
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	I used to work at "Ramsey Outdoor". The Paramus store was in "The Sopranos". I was in the Ramsey store. One day, two guys drive up in a Jeep, walk to the canoes, pick one up, and walk out. As they passed the cashier, they held up a pink piece of paper, announced that they that the purchace order, and to have a good day. The next day, the manager wanted to know where the hell the canoe was. Turns out that all these guys had was a piece of pink constuction paper. And we laffed, and laffed, and laffed. And the cashier applied for unemployment... __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

04-29-2006, 02:20 AM	#2
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	weird shit , well ,,,,, Once I saw a box break open and various body parts fell to the floor , Once I was crawling around in what I thought was mud , later I found out there was a broken sewer mail neer by , More than once I have been drawn down on ( with a fire arm ) , Once I had to have Sherif Deputies with me to do my job , Shall I continue ???? __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

04-29-2006, 10:42 AM	#3
plthijinx Master Dwellar Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 4,197	there's this dude that argues and yells at the crosswalk lights here in downtown houston. very strange. the dude is always dressed well so i don't think he's a bum. funny as shit, though. when the X-walk light is white he either preaches to it, shouting of course, or screams about the gubmint. guess it depends on what kind of mood he's in that day. funny thing is that when the walk light changes to don't walk (red) he stops yelling at it! everyone that works downtown and spends anytime outside knows of him. depending on what day of the week it is dictates what street he's on. yesterday was Travis street day. Monday will be Louisiana steet day. dude is a beer or two short of a six pack. __________________ For your dreams to come true, you must first have a dream.

04-30-2006, 05:34 PM	#6
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I'm going to flunk my linguistics test. I just wanted to say that and I didn't want to start a whole new thread. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

05-03-2006, 11:11 AM	#12
KinkyVixen Marching In! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 580	we can add weird things seen to the title too if you want....all stories are welcome! __________________ "Smile before bed.You'll sleep better."

04-29-2006, 11:21 AM	#4
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	I worked in a family pizzeria for several years as a second job. Some of the customers there would amaze you!. Anyway, there was one lady that would come in the instant we opened (10:30 am). She was always attired in fairly decent clothing, but messy and dirty. She wanted to buy two slices of pizza and would question me as to whether they were freshly made or leftovers from the day before. I'd reassure her that we never served anything from the day before and all our pizza's were just made. She'd hand over her money ($3.14 worth) and it was always filthy, mangled change that had obviously been salvaged off the ground. Then she'd disappear into the ladies room and take a bath. Literally. 15 minutes later she would reappear, damp and shiny, and take her pizza. We'd then have to go mop up the restroom. Another lady in her mid-30's would come in to eat once in a while in the mid-afternoon. Luckily, that was when there were few or no customers about. She was a bit overweight and always dressed as a streetwalker might...short shorts with her butt cheeks showing, see thru blouses with no bra, rolls of fat showing around the edges of her too tight clothing. She would order an entire pizza and a pitcher of coke and sit at a booth near the back of the restaurant. Now this is where things got weird. She would talk out loud to herself, as though she were having a conversation with an invisible person. Sometimes these conversations were mumbled and sometimes they were vehement. She would toss her long hair over her shoulder in a flirtatious manner and she constantly squirmed around on the bench. It appeared at times as though she was playing with herself, but none of us wanted to get close enough to verify that for sure. This would last a very long, uncomfortable 90 minutes or so, then she'd pay and saunter out. Then there was the kitchen helper that was always drunk. He would drop the change, lean down to pick it up and bump the register drawer on his way up..exploding all the change out and onto him and the floor. He got very belligerant at times with the customers and/or employees. He rode a bicycle and would wobble away when his shift was over. Needless to say, he didn't last long. Fun, fun. I miss that place! Stormie

04-30-2006, 06:46 PM	#9
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Yeah...there have a been a few minor changes in Sycamoreland over the past year.

05-03-2006, 07:39 AM	#10
Hagar Master of the Domain Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 220	Ok... a couple of years out of college, I worked as junior office monkey at a real estate rental office. Most rents then were paid in cash over the counter, so much of my time was just taking and receipting rents. My other main job was property inspections, to see that tenants were looking after the landlords' properties. You often see weird shit during property inspections. You never see people in the same light after seeing some folks personal lives. Legally, we had to issue a written notice to the tenant seven days before the inspection, so they could get their shit together and clean. Anyhow, one woman, who rented a nice modern house, always paid on time, and had been no trouble at all, took offence at the idea of an inspection. And by "took offence", I mean she went apeshit. She came barrelling into the office screaming about how "no one was coming into her house" and that she had a gun and would shoot anyone that came near the place. We were pretty cool about it all, withdrew the initial notice, notified the owner, who naturally freaked out and insisted we get in there as soon as possible and then begin proceedings to get her out of his house. So we issued the required inspection notice again. Nutcase tenant comes in to our office, brandishing the notice, more threats, real psycho stuff too. It became a patten over the next few weeks, psycho spotted on the street, all the office girls vanish leaving poor old monkeyboy to deal with the homicidal tenant. I copped many an earful, colorful threat and poor character description. The rental dept. manager, decided it was time to "out-bitch" the bitch. Sadly, this was well within her abilities. She called in a favour with the local copshop, and, a couple of weeks later, we conducted not only an inspection, but a firearms search of the premises. This involved two officers, both with drawn sidearms, and a secondaries in ankle holsters, wearing bullet proof vests with big metal plates slotted down the front. We were required to wait about 100 metres up the street until an entry was secured. This shit fully freaked me out. This is Australia. We don't have guns (mostly). I literally don't know anyone who openly owns a gun. We used to muck around with air rifles in school, but that's about it. So to see several guns in one day (including the shotguns in the boot of the police car) was full on. As it turned out, the property was no Waco wannabe. It was neat and undamaged, there was a convertible BMW parked in the garage, there were no guns. To this day I still don't know what the issue was. Psycho stopped paying rent from that day. It got rather ugly (financially) for the owner after that. But we got her out in the end. I so hope her husband's got a shed. Wow, what an essay! If you've read all that you've done well!

05-03-2006, 08:05 AM	#11
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Very impressive, all of you! We need a "weird things I've seen" thread, since working in the office I do means no real interesting stories.

05-03-2006, 01:22 PM	#13
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Yesterday was credible death threat day at work. The threatener did not show up on the property, but I kept a very close eye on the sight lines. Today, I'll be going in with the binoculars. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-03-2006, 09:59 PM	#14
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Against whom? Any and all? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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