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Funny work Stories.

  • 23-06-2015 1:00am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,472 ✭✭✭✭


    Please share all your "Funny work Stories" below. EG. While working as a cashier what ridiculous things were said to you. Sadly, I have none worth of the word funny.

    Also, Please be true, no made up stories:P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Knock knock?

    *Who's there?*

    A man walks into a shop and hurts his head.

    It's an iron bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    1940's occupied Europe.

    *Knock Knock*

    Who is there?

    'The SS'.


    Fin.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    ha ha.

    i was working in this job right .... back around 2006 right. :)

    and they were giving me all this amazing money.

    so anyway I used to go off and get loans right, and buy all this fun stuff, you know based on my future earnings.

    and then this one day right .... all the work was gone to a call center in India.

    and now theres only work for automation engineers. and I'M the one eating rice in a hut now .... hahahahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,472 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Where did I go wrong in creating this? Was it the time I created it at, or the fourm I created it in?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Where did I go wrong in creating this? Was it the time I created it at, or the fourm I created it in?

    Where to start :rolleyes:

    ~ Lack of your own interesting story

    ~ Lack of an interesting hook

    ~ The "Please Kick Me" sign on the back of your t-shirt


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    ha ha.

    i was working in this job right .... back around 2006 right. :)

    and they were giving me all this amazing money.

    so anyway I used to go off and get loans right, and buy all this fun stuff, you know based on my future earnings.

    and then this one day right .... all the work was gone to a call center in India.

    and now theres only work for automation engineers. and I'M the one eating rice in a hut now .... hahahahaha

    Class!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    ha ha.

    i was working in this job right .... back around 2006 right. :)

    and they were giving me all this amazing money.

    so anyway I used to go off and get loans right, and buy all this fun stuff, you know based on my future earnings.

    and then this one day right .... all the work was gone to a call center in India.

    and now theres only work for automation engineers. and I'M the one eating rice in a hut now .... hahahahaha


    Back in 2006. If you'd dreamt this and now it had come true.

    Would you now be "living the dream"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    This one time this guy dropped a glass of water and it went everywhere. Everyone laughed.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ha ha.

    i was working in this job right .... back around 2006 right. :)

    and they were giving me all this amazing money.

    so anyway I used to go off and get loans right, and buy all this fun stuff, you know based on my future earnings.

    and then this one day right .... all the work was gone to a call center in India.

    and now theres only work for automation engineers. and I'M the one eating rice in a hut now .... hahahahaha

    Letter to Viz...

    I work in a call centre in Norwich and we've just been told our jobs are
    moving to India. I'm so excited! I've always wanted to visit India and
    with the salary they pay me I'll be able to live like a Maharaja over
    there. Well done Aviva, keep up the good work.
    Charles Turner


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭glued


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    Where did I go wrong in creating this? Was it the time I created it at, or the fourm I created it in?

    Well, personally, I just don't have the time to make up stories on the internet this early. I'll be bored in work in an hour so I might make a decent effort at creative writing then.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    In the jazz club I used to work at, there was this mad old fella who used to carry round an umbrella think it was a sax. We never told him though. We just thought it was funny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Something funny happened where I worked once. Had to be there though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭hal9000


    Funny stuff in our place was banned in order to increase productivity :(


  • Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    Or, yanno, Cries of Colleagues /Retail /IT


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I didn't get where I am today by sharing funny work stories with strangers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Got held up at gunpoint before in work, one of our van drivers was stuck in the back of his van, driven up the Wicklow mountains and had a gun held to his head.

    Oh how we laughed that day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    Turned up at the dept. store where I work the other day to find the doors locked.
    Turns out they forgot to make any money for the past 10 years!!!

    Still PMSLing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,472 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    For someone who understands various types of humour, I haven't a clue whats going on here atm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,969 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I remember going to work one day and then realised I'm self employed and I wasn't needed so I went home.

    Good enough for you OP?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    My sides are splitting here.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Once in band camp the teacher asked all the boys to put their flutes on the table


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    There was this man and then he died.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    We got an email years ago (in a call centre) that they were opening an office in Manila if anyone wanted to relocate there would be a relocation bonus. One of the guys emailed the management team looking for details on the relocation bonus. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadnt seen the email. The relocation bonus was a 10kg bag of rice. Not paying for flights, or helping find accommodation. Rice.

    Ok its not a funny, ha-ha story, but you have to laugh right?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    stmol32 wrote: »
    Turned up at the dept. store where I work the other day to find the doors locked.
    Turns out they forgot to make any money for the past 10 years!!!

    Still PMSLing.

    Clerys?


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