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Dumb co-workers

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  • 18-11-2010 11:49am
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    patmac
    Registered Users Posts: 7,567 ✭✭✭


    So what is the dumbest thing a co-worker has done.
    Last Sunday one of our employees clocked in at 8.00 am and then clocked out again at 8.06.
    We are closed on a Sunday! (he has his own keys as he normally opens the place up).
    Any other stories out there?


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    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,726 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    nearly blew up a kitchen. Dense fecker left the gas on too long before lighting the match.

    Ended up with a fireball flying around the kitchen :eek:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    wobbles-grogan
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭wobbles-grogan


    patmac wrote: »
    So what is the dumbest thing a co-worker has done.
    Last Sunday one of our employees clocked in at 8.00 am and then clocked out again at 8.06.
    We are closed on a Sunday! (he has his own keys as he normally opens the place up).
    Any other stories out there?

    Thats not stupid is it? He probably went in to collect something.

    Once a workmate rang the boss saying he wouldnt be in tomorrow as he got food poisining.

    Met the boss in the pub 20 minutes later watching a match....


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    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Started prepping massive volumes of boric acid in an IBC using buckets and with absolutely no personal protective equipment. Idiot.


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    who what when
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭who what when


    patmac wrote: »
    So what is the dumbest thing a co-worker has done.
    Last Sunday one of our employees clocked in at 8.00 am and then clocked out again at 8.06.
    We are closed on a Sunday! (he has his own keys as he normally opens the place up).
    Any other stories out there?

    It may be stupid but I'd say everyone at some stage has got up for work on a weekend morning only to realise they should have stayed in bed!


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    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    who what when wrote: »
    It may be stupid but I'd say everyone at some stage has got up for work on a weekend morning only to realise they should have stayed in bed!

    Not me anyway.


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    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Me either. Weekend days are too precious and too highly anticipated for it to ever happen.

    The opposite has happened on occasion tho.


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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    jimthemental wrote: »
    Not me anyway.

    well arent you great;)


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    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    FatherLen wrote: »
    well arent you great;)

    Finally the recognition I've been seeking all these years. Thank you :)


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    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    One left a bucket of highly concentrated chlorine solution on the side of the pool in a bucket at peak children-runnng-around time.

    Another one managed to completely delete our entire database twice in one month.


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    FatherLen
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    i was working in this mine and this one guy caused a cave in!!! we were stuck in there for ages!


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    Badger2009
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭Badger2009


    Used to have a guy working for us in a haulage business.

    One morning didn't show and no answer from his phone.

    Watching the news that evening there he was at the Galway races!
    Proudly standing behind some trainer with a big smiley head on him!

    What an idiot!


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    LenaClaire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    One woman was the admin for the VP and he got some lobsters delivered in dry ice. She decided to put them in the freezer in the office rather than leaving them in the box with the dry ice. She grabbed the dry ice with her bare hands even thought it had HUGE writing on it saying do not touch with bare skin. She had to take 2 days off work with burns and asked for workers compensation. :eek:

    Same woman spilled a whole glass of orange juice on her phone. She then calls me over since it is broken. I ask her why it is sticky and she tells me about the juice and says "Oh, would that hurt it?"

    I was so glad when she left.


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    karlog
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    When your unemployed co-workers are meaningless.


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    derfderf
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    A girl checkin the metal detector in my old job. U let a small bar go under the detector. The conveyor should retract and let it fall in a small container if it there's any metal.
    She was doin it but didn't keep hold of the bar. It fell in the container, she reached in to grab it and the conveyor closed on her arm and pulled her into the container.


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    Blazer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,421 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    derfderf wrote: »
    A girl checkin the metal detector in my old job. U let a small bar go under the detector. The conveyor should retract and let it fall in a small container if it there's any metal.
    She was doin it but didn't keep hold of the bar. It fell in the container, she reached in to grab it and the conveyor closed on her arm and pulled her into the container.

    and?


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    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    jimthemental wrote: »
    Started prepping massive volumes of boric acid in an IBC using buckets and with absolutely no personal protective equipment. Idiot.

    Wasnt that in a simpsons episode? Or was it on boards before? Sounds familliar!


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    James Bong 79
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭James Bong 79


    Worked with this guy once who jumped into a conversation i was having with a co worker about films. He says "i love that film rocky!" then he blasted out his best rocky impression shouting "I LOVE YOU DAMIEN!!!"
    Strange guy! :-)


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    karlog wrote: »
    When your unemployed co-workers are meaningless.

    My coworkers are never meaningless even if they are unemployed! ;o

    jujibee wrote:
    Same woman spilled a whole glass of orange juice on her phone. She then calls me over since it is broken. I ask her why it is sticky and she tells me about the juice and says "Oh, would that hurt it?"
    My mother did that to the remote :(
    Couldnt get it working for a few days. Eventually got the backup one working. "I can't figure out why it's not working" she says. Finally... "oh I dropped it in my coffee the other day, do you think that might have been it?"
    :rolleyes:


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    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    I once worked on a building site in our great capital, and there was a big Afro-European lad working there.
    One day during lunch a half wit got into a row with the Afro-European lad, and told him that he should "try to join the dots" an attempt at a racist slur.
    The Afro-European lad picked up thehalf wit and put him into a large tool box and locked the lid.


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    themadchef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,813 ✭✭✭themadchef


    I asked a young fella to boil 4 dozen eggs for me one day. He cracked them open into the pot and onto the gas. I guess i shoulda been more specific.

    Back in the day when you could burn your paper rubbish i asked a porter to "do the bins" which meant of course putting them in the bin. He had watched someone earlier in the day burning papers out the back so threw all the waste bins, food, everything, into the burning ash. We had to get a digger to root it all out and dump it properly after him.


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    #22
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    My manager cant do maths, spell or use a computer. Seriously thick.


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    MistyCheese
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    themadchef wrote: »
    Back in the day when you could burn your paper rubbish i asked a porter to "do the bins" which meant of course putting them in the bin. He had watched someone earlier in the day burning papers out the back so threw all the waste bins, food, everything, into the burning ash. We had to get a digger to root it all out and dump it properly after him.

    It sounds like whoever was responsible for training in the kitchen porter should've made sure he knew what to do when someone asked him to "do the bins."


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    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    phill106 wrote: »
    Wasnt that in a simpsons episode? Or was it on boards before? Sounds familliar!

    Don't know, just happened a few weeks ago anyway.


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    Auvers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    James Bong 79 wrote: »
    "I LOVE YOU DAMIEN!!!"

    who is Damien? I thought it was Adrian


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    spudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭spudd


    Worked with a guy during my co-op placement in college who decided to get an STI test and was telling everyone and anyone who'd listen about it. He then brought in the results and showed them to the boss, and several of our co-workers....


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    allanb49
    Registered Users Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Auvers wrote: »
    who is Damien? I thought it was Adrian

    I love you damien is from the Omen,

    Rock shouts ADRIAN at the end of Rocky 1 or 2


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    kiad
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭kiad


    kylith wrote: »
    One left a bucket of highly concentrated chlorine solution on the side of the pool in a bucket at peak children-runnng-around time.

    Well if the bucket was in another bucket, that should be OK, right?


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    _feedback_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    who what when wrote: »
    It may be stupid but I'd say everyone at some stage has got up for work on a weekend morning only to realise they should have stayed in bed!

    Not really. I may have woken on very few occasions at the usual up for work time and thought it was a weekday. For about half a second.

    How many would have actually gotten up, get dressed for work, had breakfast, go to work, open up, log in, and stay for 6 minute before realising!

    You'd need to be a bit dim in fairness.


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    dilallio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    One of my colleagues was performing a software change on our order management system.
    Instead of updating the order ship date on a small number of orders in the Test System, he updated all the due dates on all orders in the Production system to the following Friday.
    Because we had an automated link from our system to the carrier's system, the following friday, 47 articulated trucks arrived together to collect all the orders. Just beforehand, the manager of the shipping company called to apologise that he had contacted loads of other truck companies, but he could only get 47 trucks at short notice.
    They blocked up the whole estate and cost the company a small fortune.

    We got the local radio station to play this request for our unfortunate colleague:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWO_AIh8drk


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    kiad
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭kiad


    A few years ago I told a co-worker that he had to complete form #55637892D, but instead the idiot filled out form #55637892E. The mistake was quickly spotted and rectified. We still laugh about it to this day!!!


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