Who's got an interesting story from their jobs to tell us

Merryg · 10-10-2002, 09:29 AM

OK tell us a good or weird story from your job or previous job. Who has a unique job - like working in a meat plant, a manufacturer of things we all use, a funeral home . . . . tell us your story!!!

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**shell76** · 10-10-2002, 09:53 AM

Okay, I didn't have a unique job, I worked at a grocery store....but one day a man that often shopped in the store came in acting strangely. We didn't pay too much attention to him until the security guy calls all the managers up to the office. (I worked in the office) The security guy says, "You have to see what this guy just did". He runs back the tape and this is what we all see...The guy walked down the HBA aisle and picked up a box of visine and looked at it, then stuffed it in his shirt pocket....that was really surprising because the guy was a local youth minister and we knew him because he was a regular customer, but what happened next was the weird part....the guy looks up at the security camera, kinda cocks his head to one side, then reaches down, unzips his pants, pulls his "thing" out and shakes it around!

Then he stuffs it back in his pants, zips up, and continues shopping as if nothing happened!

Needless to say, the police got called, he was taken away, and we found out later from one of his relatives that he was suffering from some mental problems.....

**captorquewrench** · 10-10-2002, 09:58 AM

I worked in an MDO program.

One of the kids in my group somehow, in the span of about 10 seconds got under the table nd make a BIG BIG poo

and got back to the table

with nothing on her, anywhere. ANYWHERE.

i only knew it was her because the other kids said so.

my favorite, however, is from the job im curently at.
This guy kept calling, he was a pest! making all kinds of threats to sue, etc. We have caller ID. My boss said, after this guy had called about 35 (no exaggeration) times one day.....let me pick it up next time he calls, I'll fix him.

5 minutes later.......RRRRRRRING!!!!!!

"Hello, Domino's Pizza, can I take your order?"

This is highly effective if your boss has a foreign accent.

we have never heard from that guy since.

BeesKnees · 10-10-2002, 10:04 AM

I used to sterilize operating rooms after surgeries were over for the day. They are always cleaned after each surgery, but what I did was more intensive, walls, ceilings, floors, covering each room with germicide and letting it soak into all of the crevices and such before I dried it all up again. Then had to rearrange the room back to normal and make the "bed".
So I was able to see into others rooms if an emergency case or late case was going on. Got to see surgeries on craniums, bowels, heart and also witnessed an organ harvest from the neighboring room I would be sterilizing.
Got to see the heart lung machine in action (a truly amazing piece of equipment). I am squeamish by nature, but it is not as gory as I thought it would be (usually) and it was easier to take from the other side of a window.

Now I'm a tax accountant

**shell76** · 10-10-2002, 10:09 AM

LOL!!!! captorquewrench, you just reminded me of the night my sister had her baby....me and my two little ones were in the waiting room with my Mom, my brothers, and one of my sister's friends. My son was potty training at the time, but he didn't like to "go" in public restrooms, so he was wearing a diaper. The waiting room had a play area set up for little kids, with a play kitchen, washer & dryer, tables ,etc... I noticed that my son was squatting behind the play kitchen and was grunting a bit, so I asked my daughter to come and play with me in a different area, because I knew that my son would not want her over there while he was "doing his business". He came out a few minutes later and said that he was done, so I took him to the bathroom to clean him up....I pulled down his pants and his diaper was opened, but there was no poop in it, so I though that maybe he was constipated or something, and we went back in the waiting room. I noticed that it smelled kinda stinky in there, but I didn't make the connection until my brother whispered in my ear that my son had pooped on the floor in the play area! I walked over and looked behind the play kitchen, and sure enough, there it was! He had pulled his pants down, opened up his diaper, did his business, then pulled his pants back up! My mother was kind enough to help me clean up the mess, before she rushed back to tell my sister what he had done!

At least my sis got a good laugh out of it!

Merryg · 10-10-2002, 10:41 AM

I used to be in retail. Cannot tell you enough to ALWAYS wash your new clothes before you wear them!!! You'd be surprised of what kind of nasty people have tried them on. We've found kids wiping their noses on clean clothes. We knew of people buying garments to wear for one occasion and then return them - still with the ticket on. They can tuck tickets in or some even go so far as to have a ticketing gun at home that will allow them to reattach the ticket so they can return it. In order to be bale to return it, they can't be washed. So go figure of what was wearing that clothing and then returned it. Oh . . .the things that go on in fitting rooms!!! Adults relieving themselves in the corners!! We even caught two teenagers going at it in one fitting room at JC Penney's!!! But my main area was the shoe department. People's nasty feet trying on shoes. Those little try on stockings are worthless. We've seen NASTY, smelly, SWEATY, corned up feet trying on shoes and then deciding they didn't want that pair!!! I had one manager that if he could get away with it, if a shoe got returned that was used, he had us clean them up to look like new!! So beware when buying shoes!!!!! Please ALWAYS wash your new clothes before you wear them!!! GERMS, GERMS, GERMS!!!

**MySonNick1** · 10-10-2002, 10:50 AM

Originally posted by Merryg
I used to be in retail. Cannot tell you enough to ALWAYS wash your new clothes before you wear them!!! You'd be surprised of what kind of nasty people have tried them on. We've found kids wiping their noses on clean clothes. We knew of people buying garments to wear for one occasion and then return them - still with the ticket on. They can tuck tickets in or some even go so far as to have a ticketing gun at home that will allow them to reattach the ticket so they can return it. In order to be bale to return it, they can't be washed. So go figure of what was wearing that clothing and then returned it. Oh . . .the things that go on in fitting rooms!!! Adults relieving themselves in the corners!! We even caught two teenagers going at it in one fitting room at JC Penney's!!! But my main area was the shoe department. People's nasty feet trying on shoes. Those little try on stockings are worthless. We've seen NASTY, smelly, SWEATY, corned up feet trying on shoes and then deciding they didn't want that pair!!! I had one manager that if he could get away with it, if a shoe got returned that was used, he had us clean them up to look like new!! So beware when buying shoes!!!!! Please ALWAYS wash your new clothes before you wear them!!! GERMS, GERMS, GERMS!!!

That is so gross. Kind of makes you not want to try on any clothes or shoes at the stores. Yuck! My mom and sister have both worked in retail, but have never told stuff like that.

**lisahiser** · 10-10-2002, 10:59 AM

Oh Man I have a ton!!!! I used to work for Whirlpool Headquaters and used to take calls from customers all day long.............

We had one woman who wanted Whirlpool to pay for her food because her power had been shut off for a week (she didn't pay her bill)and now her food was all spoiled and demanded that Whirlpool pay for it! it was hard for me not to laugh at her,she kept going on and on about how expensive her food was and how she deserved to have it replaced because a refridgerator is supposeed to keep things cool and this one didn't (even though the power was off!) but I sure laughed hard when I got off the phone.

My first day my 3rd phone call from a customer..... He wanted me to tell him a joke before I could help him, I was freaked, I didn't know what to do, if this was a test or what and the only joke I could think of was : There is a blonde driving her truck down a country road, She sees another blonde in a field, in a row boat just rowing away, so she pulls over and goes to the side of the road and Yells at the other Blonde "It is Blondes Like you that give us other Blondes a bad name! What the H*ll do you think you are doing? I would go out there and Kick Your @ss If I could Swim!"
So I told him the joke, the guy laughed so hard, and he wanted me to repeat the joke to him so he could write it down! to tell his co-workers and friends later! My Mentor came over to see why my call was taking so long, as I was helping this guy ( all he wanted was an Owner's maual for a washer) I told her what had happened and all she did was laugh and tell me to hurry to the next call.

Another call I had was from a woman who wanted us to pay for her dishwasher bill, She had put Salmon in her dishwasher. Yes Salmon,fish,(don't ask me why I never got to ask her either) she ran a cycle and forgot about it, went out and came back home. well of course the house and the dishwasher REEKED of fishy smell, and some of the fish got stuck in the drain. well she couldn't get it out and had called a repair man to get it out. But the reason why she thought that we should pay for the bill was because in the owner's manual, it doesn't tell you how to use Salmon in a dishwasher (nor does the book even mention the word Salmon) and if we put it in their then she would have never had to call the repair man and her house and dishwasher wouldn't smell.

I could go on and on, but those are some of the ones that stick in my mind.

**Nikkole** · 10-10-2002, 12:43 PM

My husband is a union rep for Delphi they make parts for GM cars he was telling me on how a guy was found in the mens bathroom geting a something job and that one of the employees caught him and my husband had to walk him out on unpaid leave then on of his friends called his wife and let her know what he was up to.
Some of the things that go on at the plant are like a b rated porno.

**sweet~n~sassy** · 10-10-2002, 12:52 PM

i used to make saddle trees (the wood part the goes under the leather) for ortho flex saddle company. i have made some for different rodeo guys like Dee Picket and some others that i cant remember.

one snowy day someone decided to start a snowball fight outside and somehow about 20 of us ended up having the snowball fight inside the building, which was fun, until the owner showed up

there was snow all over the floor, walls, everywhere, but he never said a thing. man i really miss that job.

**tiffany21** · 10-10-2002, 12:52 PM

this one stays with me.

I was working as a telemarkerter (Phone person) ya I know I hated it also.

well anyways I made my call and was talking to the guy he asked if we could talk for a few min I told him yes it was a slow day. well then he stared to tell my his wife devorced him and won't let him see his kids. and his life means nothing to him.

and he asked me if I ever hurd anyone shot themself I told him no and he said maybe he would use a knife or a rope. well my boss called the police becouse he was listen to him talk to me. and then the man asked me what I looked like and when I asked him why he said you are nice you took the time out to talk to him and did not want to shot me while he was shoting up diffrent people.

it seemed like forever before I herd the police broke down his door. and the guy did have his gun out and loaded and his knife like he said. and till this day I call him once a day to see how he is doing. and to let him know someone does care.

needless to say I quite my job that day. I will not do that again.

but thank god he is ok.

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