30 Wild Times People Realized They Were in Way Over Their Heads

‘I never noped out of a situation so fast in my life!’
30 Wild Times People Realized They Were in Way Over Their Heads

The first day at a new job is never easy — navigating a new commute, meeting your new boss or trying to smile and nod as your co-worker reveals he’s a Pitbull superfan (true story) can really take it out of you. However, these common workplace pitfalls are nothing compared to one Redditor’s first day at an air-compressor factory, discovering that their new colleagues had some strange break-time activities. 

“My first day I saw several people smoking meth or crack while on break and a group of five or six people get into a brawl,” they recalled of their short-lived gig. “I left on my lunch break and never returned.” 

Unfortunately for them — and apparently, the guy that narrated those “this is your brain on drugs” commercials — the sobering realization that you’re in over your head is pretty common. Below are some of the craziest “what did I get myself into?” moments Redditors found themselves in, the wildest of which feature burning buildings, dominatrixes and an energetic puppy.

thegreatturtleofgort 2mo ago My second job ever was at an air compressor factory. My job was using a hydraulic press to press fit a bearing into a cast aluminum housing. If you kept your foot on the pedal too long it had enough force to crack the housing and explode the bearing. The press was wide open with zero safety barriers and you held the housing with your hands while the press did it's thing. My first day I saw several people smoking meth or crack while on break and a group of 5 or 6 people get into a
roflrogue 2mo ago I had been working for a company as a helpdesk tech for a few years. I got some certs and was looking to progress my career - so I told my boss that I wanted to do the job I was studying for... She was excited to hear I passed my cert and was happy to promote me, as the previous network admin was preparing to retire. While I was acclimating to the role, we got hit with a catastrophic ransomware attack. It was not my fault, but absolutely my problem because I was the only one with any
BrewsterRockit 2mo ago Was at a festival and Robert Randolph was offering for someone to play guitar with him. | don't know how he waved me up, but as I am being escorted up by security the reality of not knowing how to play guitar hits. This was probably the longest 30 seconds of walking in my life as I was about to be in front of a few thousand people. I get on stage to some cheers, he places a guitar on me, and says We're in G, you know what you're doing? All I can muster is the
Hot_Focus_4017 2mo ago Right before having the first kid, like 2 hours before it happened 2.4K Reply Award Share ... hgaterms 2mo ago In a similar vein, but right after our baby shower. Everyone had left and I placed the baby presents on the kitchen table and I just stared. The house was quiet and empty now. My mom drove back home (5 hours away), all my friends went back to their houses, and any phone calls and Skype calls were long over. This was it. I was on my own. What we got at this shower was all the
silkandsodomy 2mo ago Went to a fetish meet because a former partner was super-active in the scene and I'd befriended a few people adjacent to (or very much tied up in) that scene. And at the venue an older couple, friendly strangers who I'd barely talked to, asked if they could tie me up and then beat the shit out of me. Verbatim that's what they asked. I suddenly decided I was massively vanilla and not up for any of that and politely declined. They were perfectly fine with it and actually apologised for coming on too strong But then
Body_Latter 2mo ago Edited 2mo ago I was 16 with my 16 year old friends thinking we were cool and invincible. We were drinking and my friends had on really short skirts. We were hanging out with slightly older 'bad boys'. They took us to a rough part of our town to a house party of adult men. Not shortly after arriving, they put an 'adult film' on the main big screen tv and tried to talk about the scenes to my friends and I_ I never noped out of a situation so fast in my life! Edit:terrible spelling 674
wallysan2270 2mo ago Had my 18th birthday laying on the top bunk of United Stares Naval boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois. Laying in the dark in the middle of the night two weeks in wondering that very thing. 925 Reply Award Share ... TerriblePokemon 2mo ago I enlisted at 25. Old enough to know better, and I had that exact same feeling combined with what rock did they recruit these other morons from under? 276 Reply Award Share ...
wh4tifi 2mo ago When you just start Army basic training. After you finish in-processing, you hop on a bus to go meet your drill sergeants that will be there for your stay. This is called Shark Attack, you hop off the bus with duffle bags only to be met with men and women in these funny little hats (also called campaign hats) screaming at me, telling me to hurry up and why am I going so slow that made me think WTF! Why did I do this to myself 303 Reply Award Share ...
anon_opotamus 2mo ago Oh! I definitely have one of these! I was sitting in the Mormon temple during my first endowment ceremony. I had been born and raised in the church but the temple endowment is something else entirely and I was not prepared for how different and weird it was. I was sitting on one side of the room with the women while my husband was on the other side with the men. They were telling us to chant certain things and we had to put on these weird green robes and veil over our white clothes. My husband
Code_Rojo1994 2mo ago One night after bartending close to 3 in the morning my girlfriend called me to pick her up from our friends house. Drove over there told her I didn't want to come in and that I just wanted to pick her up and get back home and go to bed. Arriving to the house they waved me in to come inside I wasn't in the mood but went in anyways. I was the only guy and was just making small talk when the woman who owned the house comes out with a plate with a bunch of
Just-Sea3037 2mo ago I started college on a Navy ROTC scholarship. During orientation week we had to do a very mini boot camp (so I missed orientation, meeting people, etc). The school was a big Ag school, nowhere near a naval base. We had to report at 4 or 4:30 AM in uniform and run around in circles in the parking lot of the ROTC building. Every other lap or so an upperclassman would order you to climb into the dumpster, face the chicken coops and yell wake up you commie chickens. When they decided that you were done with
 2mo ago When I entered the water of my first Ironman triathlon 91 Reply Award Share ... + 2 more replies
InspectorRound8920 2mo ago Went home with a girl many years ago. Woke up to her kids and her eating 213 Reply Award Share ... + 6 more replies
Remote-Noise5112 2mo ago I was at a mall and ran into an old high school classmate. Не shook my hand and asked me to join him and his friends for a meal at McDonald's. While we ate he started talking about how Jesus Christ saved him and showed him the way (and all the usual stuff you would expect). Не was a completely different person than how I remembered him from 10 years prior. Anyway as we were exiting the mall, he asked me if I could pray with them. I didn't want to be an asshole so I agreed.
baronvonredbud 2mo ago Long story short, someone asked me to be a volunteer firefighter. Since it was all free training and a little extra income, I figured sure why not, hiw hard can it be? Went through the academy and got all my certificates. Two weeks later, we had our first big call. 3 story apartment building top floor fully engulfed. I get on scene and the chief looks at me and my buddy and says you two get that hose line and get upstairs you are fire attack 1 I just stood there and looked at him, then at
DontCallMeBenji 2mo ago Getting my first post-college job at ITT Tech right as they were getting investigated for misleading and overcharging students. While interviewing, everyone was really nice and the place was clean and professional. However, it didn't take long for me to start seeing through all the smoke and mirrors. I made cold calls to lines I knew wouldn't answer or were disconnected and collected a decent paycheck for six months before getting out of there. I'm shocked it took 6 more years for them to completely shut down. 66 Reply Award Share ...
RoseWould 2mo ago Picking my husband up from jail: on the car ride home, he explained to me the reason he now had a DV charge was that him and his mom got into a fist fight over him wanting to marry me. 159 Reply Award Share ... + 3 more replies
sakatan 2mo ago Driving from San Francisco to Denver for an ad-hoc roadtrip before my flight back to Germany, diverting onto Highway 50 at Fallon on a whim - because I saw it on TopGear once. I literally stood at a rest stop, saw that loneliest road in America sign and thought neat; I'ma find that tree full of shoes and just stop at whatever motels on my way. Alone. At night. With piss poor cell reception. Without ANY experience doing road trips like this. After an hour or so on that road without ANY traffic, I asked myself that question. Best
futureformerteacher 2mo ago 110 feet under water, pitch black, massive downwelling current, starting to panic. 103 Reply Award Share ... + 9 more replies
PurpleDonuts21 2mo ago We were in Prague on a stag, got enticed into this club by some rather persistent doormen. It was a strip club, but a rough one. We thought, it's a stag, who gives a fuck let's get a drink. There was a show going on where you could pay to get involved, so we paid and signed our mate up. We thought, lap dance, whipping and worst. Anyway, this rather timid looking gentleman went up not long after, then a goth looking girl in a like plastic looking black jacket came out on the stage, took off
Kind_Man_0 2mo ago Hooked up with this older woman when I was in my 20s. In the getting to know her phase, she let me know she was a dominatrix but I didn't see that as a turnoff. I wasn't really into it but she offered it and I figured if dudes pay her for this shit, I'll try it. I ended up in a gimp mask, butt naked, with my wrists and ankles chained to the ceiling. She had one of those ball gags in my mouth, but it was ring shaped to allow...entry. she put a double sided
zaccus 2mo ago | adopted a puppy 2 days ago. Holy shit this is hard. 169 Reply Award Share ... Tapillustrious4409 2mo ago Keep with it. They work on a schedule most times. Try to find the pattern. Plenty of exercise and play, Toys and puppy proofing. For mine, it was immediately go outside As soon as You got this! he ate, Or played hard. 82 Reply Award Share ...
CaptainMarrow 2mo ago Felt bad for Mormon missionaries, so when they knocked on my door I went out to listen to them. I have no interest in Mormonism and do not want to convert to any religion, but at the end of them talking to me...got me into their car and drove me to a Tabernacle where I got stuck in a room with Mormon women who then proceeded to try to find me a husband that day. Needless to say I now do not open doors to any religious nutbags for any reason. 75 Reply Award Share ...
Konfusedkonvict 2mo ago At the hospital with my first born- no stop crying and screaming Dude has strong lungs. 96 Reply Award Share ... + 1 more reply
crazycajun660 2mo ago Took a woman home from the bar, we hooked up and | slept there for the night. Early the next morning we were woken up by someone knocking on the door. She panicked and told me to hide under the bed. It was her SIL dropping off her kid so she could go run errands. She came back in and told me she was married?!?!? I had to leave through the window so the kid didn't see me. 634 Reply Award Share ...
Basil_Brush15 2mo ago I just watched the cat in the hat (2003) - one of the most unhinged 90 minutes of my life 119 Reply Award Share ... + 6 more replies
 2mo ago The first day I started teaching high school these two students, a girl and a guy, started arguing. She was not a small girl, football linebacker build, and she threw a desk chair across the room at him after he called her ugly. I had to jump over my desk and hold her back from beating his ass. Immediately asked myself, What did you agree to. 73 Reply Award Share ...
Prestigious-Solid822 2mo ago I got picked up by a guy I met off MySpace and he took me to the train tracks to smoke refer when I was 14. I remember being on the train tracks thinking I was a moron. Blessed he was genuinely a good guy. I had a great time 34 Reply Award Share ...
memedomlord 2mo ago Dropped a hymnal from the balcony of a church during my little brother's Christmas concert. I had moved my elbows and leaned on the railing, not noticing the two hymnals go flying off and almost hit a mother with her baby in her arms. Me and the two girls sitting next me, ducked down with our hands covering our faces to stop the giggling. And were all staring at each toher and laughing. A few minutes later a guy in a suit starts questioning the girls, and only stops when I admit it was me. Worse yet,
MilesFromNowhere422 2mo ago When my ex-gf told me the local police were putting out a satellite signal that was preventing her cat from acting like a normal cat 203 Reply Award Share ...

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