First day on the job.....the definition of awkwardness!

stevejr · 31-03-2011 12:29AM #1

....that horrrible feeling;

Anyone have any terrible jokes played on them or bad experiences?

Shield · 31-03-2011 12:32AM

Would a goose being placed in your locker count?

P_1 · 31-03-2011 12:33AM

Go fetch me the long stand OP.

starviewadams · 31-03-2011 12:34AM

First day doing security years ago I was given a radio by my supervisor who told me to use it if I needed a hand with anything,I was trying to use it for about two or three hours before I realised that there was no battery in it,went inside to the office and all the lads broke their shíte laughing,felt like such an idiot!

brianthomas · 31-03-2011 12:34AM

Bucket of steam. Skirting ladder. Classics.

stevejr · 31-03-2011 12:35AM

WTF....yes. Was it alive and why?

GLaDOS · 31-03-2011 12:35AM

Woke up in a tub full of ice with one kidney less.

The hazing at the hospital was terrible.

RichieC · 31-03-2011 12:35AM

Go fetch the long stand of johnny, Richie, will ya?

GO FU*K YOURSELF I'M 32! :mad:

Hackysack · 31-03-2011 12:36AM

Old favourite - Asking the new person to go and look for a "PD file"

It's quite a hoot.

Shield · 31-03-2011 12:37AM

Yes, and first day on the job. Didn't happen to me personally but I know someone it did happen to. It was asleep and he woke it when he opened he locker. It got startled and in turn caused him to near sh1t himself.

stevejr wrote: »

WTF....yes. Was it alive and why?

RichieC · 31-03-2011 12:37AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox3Gd5GKfGw

you'll like this

stevejr · 31-03-2011 12:37AM

pithater1 wrote: »

Go fetch me the long stand OP.

was sick of waiting but i got you a leg of salmon and a skirtng-board ladder:)

TheZohanS · 31-03-2011 12:39AM

psni wrote: »

Would a goose being placed in your locker count?

Depends on how smart it is...

stevejr · 31-03-2011 12:39AM

Hackysack wrote: »

Old favourite - Asking the new person to go and look for a "PD file"

.....in the basement.

Shield · 31-03-2011 12:43AM

Not very. They named him Paisley.

TheZohan wrote: »

Depends on how smart it is...

Deise Dolly · 31-03-2011 12:45AM

First day in a new job I asked where the toilets were. They were outside by the lifts and were shared with the section at the front of the building. I was going in the door when a guy opened it from the other side. "Sorry, I thought this was the ladies," I explained. "It is the ladies," replied the very masculine woman. I cringed every time I saw her for about a week. Thank God she worked in the other section.

major bill · 31-03-2011 12:46AM

Trying to put ladder clamps back on the van without the ladder:o

Will I Amnt · 31-03-2011 12:48AM

brianthomas wrote: »

Bucket of steam. Skirting ladder. Classics.

Don't forget the striped paint

ArtyM · 31-03-2011 12:49AM

'Run down the hardware store and get for a Bubble for a spirit level and a long weight'

Voodoomelon · 31-03-2011 12:51AM

Remember we sent a new young lad from our restaurant down to another local restaraunt under the same management with a teapot and told him to get some steam. Flippin eejit went and all.

JamieK · 31-03-2011 12:54AM

cambo2008 wrote: »

Don't forget the striped paint

A guy from town who had started on a building site was sent to the hardware store for striped paint, bubbles for spirit levels and a fallopian tube!

RichieC · 31-03-2011 12:55AM

Sky hooks and skirting ladders, two more classics..

aligator_am · 31-03-2011 12:55AM

I remember many moons ago, working in Dunnes on Henry Street Dublin, being asked to go to the store room and getting a pallet of fish, brand being Ulick Magee, didn't twig it untill the really good looking girl in the store room I said it to cracked up laughing

ah well...

dx22 · 31-03-2011 12:58AM

ArtyM wrote: »

'Run down the hardware store and get for a Bubble for a spirit level and a long weight'

...and a glass hammer and some elbow grease while you're at it!

thebiggestjim · 31-03-2011 01:05AM

dx22 wrote: »

...and a glass hammer and some elbow grease while you're at it!

can you go out back and get me a fallopian tube. I got that one.

Hank Scorpio · 31-03-2011 01:39AM

Didnt happen to me but a lad I know was asked if he drop a letter with a prescription into the pharmacy while he was on his lunch break by his work mate

He handed over the letter and the attendent opened it, it read something like " Excuse me im very shy, would it be possible to get a pack of vanilla flavoured condoms, I looked around yesterday and couldnt find them "

Apparently there was 3 or 4 people behind the counter at the time, all women

ziedth · 31-03-2011 01:47AM

Used to work on a butchers counter in Superquinn. Real boys club and new lads had an awful time.

In a nutshell they'd send a guy to the bakery department (who'd be in on it) for a pudding bender they'd then send him to the stores as they had it last and so on. One poor chap was being turfed around the shop for two hours.

Also had a girl ring tesco to price a Leg of Salmon for research. Again on the phone foe 30min while I'm sure they broke their **** laughing.

Will I Amnt · 31-03-2011 01:49AM

Best one I heard was a fella on a local building site being sent to fill up the dumper with diesel,he jumps on and drives off.
Sometime later he appears in the distance driving at a snails pace,he was after filling up the bucket of the dumper with hundreds of litres of diesel and trying not to spill any on his way back.That's one you don't live down to easily

Adyx · 31-03-2011 03:24AM

A favourite in nightclubs is to send someone to find the keys to the dance floor.

A club I used to work in had these tubes filled with water with bubbles going through them. A guy, upon starting there, was sent to our sister nightclub up the street with a bucket to get bubbles for the tubes.

pickarooney · 31-03-2011 09:35AM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Woke up in a tub full of ice with one kidney less.

The hazing at the hospital was terrible.

You work with pithater01 I take it?

(for the slow ones, read his sig)

31-03-2011 09:38AM

Em, never got any of that stuff.
Those places you guys work in sound pretty mean

First day on the job.....the definition of awkwardness!

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