You must log in or # to comment.
The CEO got high on crack and was on a rampage, knocking shit over, yelling etc. and then shat his pants. It got worse when he saw that he was running out of crack and didn’t have the cash to buy more, so he got online and made an announcement that Unity would be charging per install because he needs the money for more crack and hookers. Crazy day.
The worst part about this is that I’m inclined to believe that this story is real.
I am with you.
🤣
another worker fell over and hit his head on the concrete behind me. while I was checking his pulse, he died. creepiest day ever. and the only thing the company did was take a long lunch due to the EMTs in the work area.
Holy shit that’s tragic.
Reminds me of those one punch deaths that result in manslaughter, because damn, the back of the head is pretty fragile.
Construction company we made a few foundation pads and the supervisor who was an asshole, came to check the electrical installation conduit, so he pulls his plan and goes to one conduit end that is supposed to go all the way to the other side, so he yells at one of the workers to blow on the other conduit and wants to listen for air coming out on his end.
Guy on the other end blows, nothing happens on this side, the asshole supervisor yells “Blow Harder” so the construction worker obeys and gives a big strong blow on his end. Well nobody saw this coming, someone had urinated in the pipe so all pee comes out and squirts his face in front of everybody.
Since we hated him we were all laughing our souls out of our bodies. :) The supervisor, didn’t say a word and walked away furious.
I trained a serial killer. Hang on, I’ll link to another comment I made regarding that…
EDIT, found it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/3725228
Another edit, just to clarify: I trained him at the job, not the killing part
Glad you clarified that. I was worried about you.
I mean, anything worth doing is worth doing well, right?
Dexter?
I guess if you’re going to unknowingly interact with a serial killer, being their job trainer is one of the luckiest things you can be. They can’t off you, or else they won’t be able to learn enough to do/keep their job.
Ok serious one. I used to work nightshifts in a gas station. One night, a woman turns up who was beaten by her partner. It’s really something else to see someone’s face that swollen and fucked up. Movies don’t capture it realistically. You can get somewhat of an idea when you watch UFC, but this was another level. Heartbreaking. It’s like her partner was trying to physically dehumanise her, she was really not looking human.
She didn’t have any money so I let her pump $40 gas and she said she would pay it later (she didn’t). I wrote the whole thing down and explained to my boss in the morning. He wasn’t worried about the gas and said sometimes you have to do these things.
I offered to call the police etc but she didn’t want to. It irritates the fuck out of me that people stay with abusive partners. Take care of you and your own, and get rid of anyone in your life who is toxic.
This was in an area where teenagers would turn up at 3am asking to buy lightbulbs, and not the frosted kind.
Why would people want to buy light bulbs? Are they going to throw them at people?
You can smoke meth out of lightbulbs. Don’t worry, I had no idea either until I asked other workmates about it.
Can’t use the frosted kind, cause thats phosphorus, wouldn’t wanna poison yourself!
That’s fucking heart breaking. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for doing what you did. What a good person the boss was.
He was a good dude alright. Gave me a great reference when I left.
I’m curious. What’s a lightbulb and not the frosted kind?
Really cheap crack pipe
Got it. Thank you. I was almost afraid to ask that question.
The frosted kind you can’t smoke meth out of for some reason.
Do you have any idea what sort of chemicals are in those frosted bulbs? Obviously you can’t smoke meth out of them, it might cause health problems.
I mean, hell we are responsible meth smokers here!
Nicely done. You’re an artist.
There you go haha. I haven’t thought about that. I was thinking this gonna be a sex thing haha
A clear one, obviously.
I think more like this.
Coworker (IT guy) went into a meeting room, turned on the computer, but not the monitor, and then returned to his office. Then he waited for another co-worker to enter the meeting room. The IT guy then remotely connected to the meeting room computer from his desk, logging in as the person in the meeting room - no idea how he got the password. He then made some very strange modifications to seemingly random employees time sheets and left a homophobic email in the drafts of a lesbian co-worker. Then he tried to cover his tracks by erasing some logs, logged out, and went on his merry way.
The changes were noticed the same day and I was asked to investigate. The only reason I looked thoroughly enough to figure it out was because the logs were erased, otherwise I probably would have stopped digging once the CCTV footage and time sheet modification logs matched up. He forgot to wipe the logs of his own machine showing the remote connection to the meeting room PC just before the changes were made. I was digging through his computer’s logs while sitting across from him, it was a bit surreal.
From what I heard, he gave no reason for why he did what he did. I don’t think he really had one.
What an absolute piece of shit. Could of destroyed someone’s life. I wonder if that was the first time.
“Of” never follows could/should/would. Ever.
Should “of” ever follow “would” or “could”?
It could, of course, be done. If you ignored punctuation.
Yeah to be honest I don’t know why I write it like that. I know it’s not right, outlook corrects me almost every day. One of those weird things my brain does, maybe a habit from when I was a kid idk. I do it without realizing.
To extend what TheGreenGolem said, what you have understood as “could of” is actually a contraction of the words “could” and “have” into “could’ve”
Weird.
Also, I thought the whole point of logs is that you can’t delete them yourself. They get written to an external place and then they can’t be edited.
Most users can’t clear their computer logs, but IT techs have a lot more access. I haven’t ever worked somewhere that has any kind of logs that nobody can wipe/delete, IT staff kind of need to be trusted or they can do all sorts of chaos and damage.
You’re thinking of audit logs, few systems are critical enough to warrant that, no system mentioned in the story would typically have audit logs unless we’re talking in the military or similar.
Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.
Well she didn’t put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.
Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.
The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.
I had a similar experience pre-COVID with a middle manager boss I hated.
I was going to be flying in to NY to participate on an advisory group for a very large client, and wanted to fly in early to have dinner with the editor of a trade publication for which social meetups nearly always led to being requested to do a piece, often a cover story.
Well, my middle manager boss wanted to use us as a free case study group for her friend’s team building services, and had me instead fly in late so I could be there for the stupid thing.
The real kicker was she wanted everyone on the team in, including the colleague who was home with a 102° fever. I was not happy at all that someone actively sick was going to be in the office, and even went to HR but was effectively told STFU.
So I spent the day “looking around the room with a magnifying glass to see if you notice anything different” instead of dinner with the editor in chief of our industry’s trade magazine while actively staying as far as fucking possible from my sick colleague and hating my boss with every ounce of my being.
It was nuts how she used to use company resources for her own gain, and my dislike for her eventually got to the point I would get physically ill the limited times she was actually in the offices.
Had it been COVID days, I can’t even imagine how she’d have endangered the whole team.
I caused the loss of multiple millions of dollars in stock of one of the largest manufacturering companies in the world. All because I listened to my boss instead of my instincts. I got fired because the senior foreman “couldn’t stand to look at my face”
We are gonna need more details on this one
Lol, essentially the company closed down a bunch of plants to make one big plant. Dude in question was a foreman at each plant at one point in time. They start the new plant, fast forward like six months and I get hired to do IT. The guys laptop has a memory leak issue that we couldn’t track down, so we were gonna reimage the machine. Had to backup data first. The company i worked for forced us to use a singular proprietary tool to do both. I was not allowed to manually back up anything ( like I wanted to, because seriously wtf) Well lo and behold this software doesn’t give a shit about the D partition of the users HDD or anything on it, so it wipes that part. Well that was the part of the drive that had all calibration data, measurements, contacts in the industry. Pretty much the guys black book got wiped. This is literally during first quarter of a merger. I get fired. A few weeks or like a month later I see the company stock took a huge hit because of issues with a merger. I also run into an old coworker at a gas station like 6 months later and she informed me that everything went to shit when I left and they cut the staff by more than half. Over a hundred people lost their job because of my fuck up.
I would hardly call it your fuck up. You wanted to back up the data manually and were told not to - that’s on your supervisor/boss/whoever called the shots. Not on you.
Your not wrong, and definitely not the first person to tell me that. But it still fucked with me for a while. There were a lot of really good people there, just trying to make there way. My actions, whether my fault or not, indirectly caused probably like 150+ people to lose their job, and that’s on the day shift, idk if they even kept the night shift. I know it’s not my fault, but like, I still feel a lil shitty about it, ya know. This was probably 6-7 years ago. Sense then I’ve learned my lesson and never ever keep my mouth shut and make sure I have all concerns documented. Ho boy has it saved my ass.
Did this guy just like… have critical company data not backed up, only on his laptop?
Yup, apparently that’s exactly right lol. I was kinda green on that job so I didn’t realize how wild that was. Thinking back on it, what the fuck?
Thats a massive no-no on the foremans part. If the D drive died, laptop lost/stolen, or some other issue occured, then they would have been in the exact same situation.
No backups on an external drive/server/printed files???
I work in R&D and my ass would be canned if I housed critical data like this, it goes against so many standard policies. The foreman and company screwed up both and made you a fall guy.
Yeah that’s a good point. Now that I’m farther in my career i think it is pretty wild they didn’t have some kinda back up software or network storage for critical stuff. The only reason I can think of is espionage, we were seriously worried about international espionage. I had to do training for it, we had a picture of Smokey the bear in our break room that said " only you can prevent government espionage". Shit, I just remembered the guy (super rough scruffy looking guy) cried over this, literally cried. Maybe he realized it was probably his ass for that too?
They should have had backups long ago
Go on… tell us more please.
Long ago at my first job I worked as IT in a warehouse. This story involves two employees, Retired and Pretender.
Retired is a retired U.S. marine, working in shipping, he also had permission from the owner to open carry in the office and warehouse.
Pretender was in sales and is kind of a tool who had to do all the cool things everyone else was. Three of us had motorcycles and would go on day rides. Pretender found out and less than a week later he had a motorcycle and wanted to join us (without a license). He sucked, and there are a few other examples but aren’t the topic of this story.
Pretender overheard me and a coworker talking about the guns we had. Needing to fit in, he said he’d bring his to work tomorrow and wouldn’t answer when we said he didn’t have to and just to tell us the model. Sure enough, next day he wants to show us this obviously new gun that he obviously had no training or common sense for
We played along and then went about our day. Later on, we hear Retired and Pretender in a pretty heated argument as they walk past our cubicles. Then apparently Pretender walked to his car with Retired in tow, and reached into his car and grabbed his gun.
Retired (peacefully) put a stop to it, the owner came out to figure out wtf was going on, fired Pretender on the spot and let him retrieve his belongings before seeing him off. He also called in the non emergency line and had an officer come over to put a police report on file. Unsurprisingly, the officer used an older mugshot to confirm it he had the right character.
What were they arguing about you might wonder? Pretender was telling Retired how to package an order for shipping, Retired worked in shipping for years and was having none of it. A few months later the owner got a call from the state saying Pretender filed for unemployment and to confirm the reason he was laid off, with he had listed as “downsizing”. We had a laugh over that.
TL:DR: moron coworker drew a gun on a retired marine why open carried and fortunately didn’t die, but he did get fired.
I particularly liked the “fortunately” in there. This illustrates the difference between the lemmy community and reddit’s.
Not sure that holier-than-thou attitude is justified.
But, I am. Ordained and everything.
Well, we lasted a couple hours before reverting back to Reddit.
So once a year there is a bonus pool at around $10.000 which everyone can apply for if you think you have the arguments to convince the bosses.
So one of my coworkers applied but instead of just emailing the boss, she emailed everyone. This was an email mentioning how much better she was than most of the department, and then throwing a few coworkers under the bus, to make her look better.
It’s been a few years. She’s still there. She actually got the bonus. 🤷🏽♂️
That is one way to assert dominance.
I used to work at a ski resort. The snowmaking system has guns that plug into pedestals that operate at 3 phase 480vac. One night, one of the groomers dropped the grooming tiller blades right onto a pedestal and mangled/shredded the crap out of it. This did not blow the 350a breaker, and it was still arcing the next day.
Lucky no one got fried
At my last job, I worked a few different roles working with adults with developmental disabilities, some with extreme behavior problems. I have lots of stories to share.
One such one was a time when someone ran into my office and was telling me about one of our clients getting stabbed. We followed protocol, separated them, provided aid, called cops, etc.
The way I was told it happened was that the two of them got into an argument over basketball. Then one of them grabs a pencil and fucking stabs the other in the thigh with the pencil.
I remember the cops rolling up and one cop had a shotgun and cocked it as he walked into our gates. It really wasn’t that serious. We got it all under control right after it happened.
I’ve been punched, kicked, and even spit on there. I was also sexually assaulted on numerous times by an older skinny guy. I don’t think he was gay, I think he knew I couldn’t do anything about it and got his kicks off that. He’d grab my butt and tried grabbing my groin over top of my pants sometimes.
I do not miss that fucker one bit.
On a more positive note, I remember some of the more happier times I had. I used to take the guys around the city and lots of places they had never gone before. I wasn’t supposed to, but I didn’t care as long as I was doing stuff they enjoyed and made them enjoy their 8 hours with us. That’s all that mattered to me. One of the guys still asks about me to this day, and I haven’t worked with him in over 10 years. But he was really shy when he first came to the program and we welcomed him in our crew and made sure he always felt apart of everything we did. The other guys took note and even defended him on some occasions when someone would make fun of him. That’s probably my highlight of working there.
he knew I couldn’t do anything about it
Why couldn’t you do anything about it? This shit is never ok. Why not just a quick sack-tap?
One of the guys still asks about me to this day
Awwwwwwww
The agency that oversaw our operations was overly lenient towards them and their behaviors. Their usual go-to was “that behavior is why they’re in your program”.
It was really shitty sometimes the way they just let things slide. And we got paid for each of them being in our program, so higher ups didn’t always want to let go of unruly clients, especially those with really bad behaviors because we’d be paid more to keep them in the program because of those outrageous behaviors.
The most we could do was separate him from me. I couldn’t even suspend him. But I think the bigger thing was him knowing I could never lay a finger on him for the way he would try to touch me. If he had grabbed my groin and I smacked his hand away, I would be the one who would get in trouble. He would just keep going and they would add it to his list of behaviors to work on.
Some clients even had made up stories of abuse and that was enough to let someone go. The only thing that would save the caretaker is if the client had had a history of making similar fabrications and/or the allegation could be proven false like video evidence or something. I remember people being fired purely for accusations that couldn’t be proven or disproven and the person crying innocence. It’s a really shitty thing to happen. You kind of understand and sympathize with the decision, knowing that you don’t want an actual abuser in your midst, but also realizing that some of these people in our care do lie and you’re taking away someone’s ability to feed their family strictly based on hearsay. You’d think people would find better ways of dealing with these situations, but it felt more like they preferred taking the easy route of just terminating someone and being done with the situation.
I can remember another time when a client had accused us of not feeding her. Despite 4 other clients living in the same home and none of them making similar complaints, the overseeing agency sent someone down to investigate. And the woman they sent to investigate had a personal vendetta against me for some reason, always out to get me and I have no idea why. So she opens the refrigerator and freezer and sees it filled with food but writes in her report that the lying client was correct in her accusation. That led to a meeting with one of the executives in the agency overseeing us calling me a liar in front of everyone in the meeting. Someone had taken a picture of the refrigerator but didn’t send me the picture in time so I could use it in defense of myself, so I sat there listening to them berate me about a false accusation. Before this, I had developed a really high reputation in the agency and lots of people knew me as someone who worked hard and treated the clients well and with respect. Now my name had been drug through the mud because of one false accusation.
I was miserable at the end of working there and was eternally glad to be able to escape it all. That agency being a big reason for a lot of the issues I experienced.
Is this you?
Years ago, someone made a meme photo from inside our company and got permission to publish it, but it has no company name in it. It went viral and would have been insane marketing, but it’s too late now. It’s still being reposted on lemmy, reddit, twitter and FB every coupla months. Always gets insane amounts of likes.
Which one meme?
If i do, my coworkers/bosses will know who I am and I can see my political opinion and NSFW jokes in my comment history. That would be extremely awkward.
Sounds good. Thanks for sharing what you could.
Omfg! I’m so curious 🫨
Not gunna share the meme?
If i do, my coworkers/bosses will know who I am and I can see my political opinion and NSFW jokes in my comment history. That would be extremely awkward.
Not going to give them the marketing now.
A startup I worked at got acquired, and we went to the parent company Christmas party. We used to go to the local market and get drunk, and this place booked an entire posh hotel with a free bar…so a slight difference.
Anyway, we spoke to a few random people, and ended up meeting one guy who was on his own. He had a few drinks with us, and told us that he’d been with the company for about 8 years as a software engineer.
The crazy part is that he was “unassigned” to a team. He had a manager at director level that worked from another country, who had never had a 1:1 with him and was chasing a VP promotion, but he was a team of one with no direct work. He did about a year of actual work, but got moved teams and no one in HR cared.
Over time, he learned that his only expectation was to go into the office, and to have a yearly review with his director - always cancelled. He came in every day, sat in an empty marketing suite, and played Unreal Tournament. He’d occasionally do his own work, and occasionally help others in the company out if someone needed help (usually helping some marketing person with something stupid like email campaigns), but other than that he’d been there for years, doing nothing, and getting paid well.
I can’t remember his name, and have tried to find him on LinkedIn to see if he’s still there (although not sure he’d have a LinkedIn if he were getting paid for nothing). The company is in insurance, and is a big enough name that he’d probably have a job for life if he could keep the charade up.
Interesting But what fun is it if not being challenged intellectually after all these years? People obviously want to “level up” gradually into other roles with various tasks.
Someone quit by taking a shit on the floor, right out in the open. Fortunately not near where I was, but I commend them for doing what many probably wished about.
