30 of the Most Ridiculous Situations People Dealt With at Work

‘A group of four grown men sneaking into the fitting room to smoke a joint’
30 of the Most Ridiculous Situations People Dealt With at Work

Jobs, largely, suck. The smallest blessing one could hope for is that when you have to work, you can at least clock in, do your job and go home. But nothing, of course, in this cruel world, can be that simple. Plenty of days are filled with what can only be accurately described as “bullshit.”

Even in that category, the trials and tribulations shared here by Redditors are above and beyond. An AskReddit thread requested some of the most ridiculous things they’d ever had to deal with in addition to the daily grind, and they delivered in spades. Read on to feel at least a little bit better about the crap you’re dealing with at the moment.

who-dat-on-my-porch Зу ago Worked in a sports bar. Very minor thing, but definitely ridiculous We had giant pretzels as an appetizer. Each one came with its own packet of salt. The amount in each one was overkill for a single pretzel, so we would just open a few, put it in a pan, and sprinkle on as necessary (One packet of salt was easily enough to salt 5-6 pretzels, no joke). Myself and coworker were the openers, and each morning we'd come in, the salt pan was gone, empty, and put back on the rack. She and I are like
KS AZ TheRevKros Зу ago DO A co-worker improperly used a table saw. While he was being taken to the hospital I had to pay find the thumb. It took a long time but | finally found it behind a filing cabinet.
AnyoneButMee . Зу ago I tattooed a cartoon character (the image my client picked out) and then they complained because it was too cartoony
AxlotlRose . Зу ago I was counseled for a good hour because I offended the other ladies in our small office by...get this.....I used big words that they didn't understand. Not bad words. Big words. The ridiculous/sad thing? The job was for a book manufacturer and at any given time there were several dictionaries being printed.
Safraninflare a Зу ago Every interaction | have with accounts payable. Today's highlight: if his flight was on 6/21, why was his Uber on 6/22? Well, ma'am. His flight landed at 11:58pm and typically people cannot just directly teleport from the plane to their Uber. But what do I know, I'm just a budget manager.
DKmann Зу ago Kind of weird - but here I go. I work in politics and part of my job was reporting to my board the status of a various advocacy groups. Like what issues are they working and who funds them. With one group a major donor was George Soros. I put him on the list with all the other major donors for a power point presentation. A staff member freaks out and says I'm anti-Semitic because I listed Soros. I'm very confused because I thought the factually incorrect meme was that he was a Nazi (he clearly was not). Anyhow - HR
fatchamy Зу ago I work in facilities management. A 260lb dude sat on a laptop table in the lounge areas which bent under the weight and couldn't be repaired. When we reached out to him to ask him to not sit in them again as they aren't intended for sitting, he insisted all the furniture in the office should sustain being sat on. Не continued to sit on every laptop table which led to it being warped and had to be removed. We had to replace 8 tables over 3 months until his manager agreed to have a discussion with
ByDeleted Зу ago When I worked in the NHS, I had to take part in an investigation about a poo on the floor in a community hospital. A patient had missed the bog, so it sat steaming on the floor. The nurse said, too busy, can't clean that up, get the cleaner. Cleaner said can't touch that, it's biological waste. Went back to nurse who said find a healthcare assistant. Healthcare assistant said can't do it, haven't been signed off on the infection control policy. Escalated to sister who said the student nurse should do it. Student nurse vomited and
CornerPuzzleheaded74 . Зу ago Some random dude took a dump in the floor of where I work. I had to clean it up and he was effectively banned from ever coming back.
Bojangles9000 Зу ago I work in film and television. We were shooting in a pretty upper-class neighborhood and the woman living beside the house we were filming in decided that she hasn't been paid enough. So a few hours into our day she starts playing opera music as loud as she can with all her windows open. After an hour or 2 of that and no one batting an eye she ramps it up and starts mowing her lawn. Once that was done she just sits right on her property line with the mower going full blast until a producer
ItsEarthDay Зу ago As a teenager while working as a cashier at a store, I was robbed at gunpoint by two dudes with guns pointed inches from my face. The store manager and someone from corporate showed up shortly after the police came to show support. Immediately after the police left, both the manager and corporate rep tried to convince me and my other coworkers that also had a gun in their faces to keep the store open for the remainder of the shift (~6 hours). I was literally still shaking from the ordeal, and somehow they felt that I
nanrosenthal Зу ago I work in influencer marketing and we hired an Instagram influencer to work on a yogurt brand campaign. As part of the activation we also sent a tie-dye kit and branded swag for them to make tie-dye shirts, hats, etc, with their friends or family. One of the influencers pulled the tie-dye ink out of the t-shirt kit and used it to tie-dye her yogurt bowl, took a video of herself eating it, then shared the video with her followers who ultimately alerted her that you can't eat tie-dye ink. This was, of course, our fault (the
DoctorFunktopus . Зу ago A customer insisting that we should change the brand of hot dogs we were serving because this cat i iknow wouldn't eat them. Not her cat just a casual cat acquaintance.
 . Зу ago Intern once thought that he could fax a physical object to the receiving machine. Не was trying to fax his belt to a friend. Kid was either an acting prodigy or maybe he needed a life jacket to eat soup. I guess I'll never know.
 3y ago Edited Зу ago I worked in returns at IKEA and had a customer complain that they accidentally ripped the instruction manual in half for the furniture piece they were assembling when they were cutting open the box and couldn't finish assembling it. I politely informed them that all our instruction manuals were available online in pdf form, but this just made her mad and she wanted to speak to the manager. Manager gave her a few $5 gift cards just to get her off my back but I will always find it so funny that this lady
Wisterialaneresident . Зу ago One time while working front desk at a gym, a woman complained that there were too many geese outside and they should've flown south by then and we needed to do something about it.
k923f 3y ago One time my boss saved a hurt goose and put it in a box and made me take it to an animal hospital. Driving down the highway the goose started flapping and got out of the box. | didn't know what to do and I was scared to grab the goose so I drove the whole way there with a goose riding passenger
Terytha 3y ago A coworker attempted to prove that you couldn't actually hurt yourself slipping on a banana peel by stepping on one. After which he slipped and hurt himself. I refused to write it up as an incident. It was too stupid.
TheHorniestRhino Зу ago Maybe not most ridiculous ever, but | just received an email from a frustrated woman who reached out to us weeks ago and hasn't heard back. I'm unable to find her name in the system so I ask my boss who also can't find her, who asks her boss who also can't find her, so we go to our CRM manager and they can't find her either. The lady had changed her first and last name a week ago. Had changed her email as well. I ended up having her former name on an attendance sheet from
KiteTenjo Зу ago Worked at a grocery store. Customers dog takes a shit at the front of the store by the registers. Не stands there while I'm cleaning it, and the dog takes a second shit as I'm cleaning the first. As I'm cleaning the second shit, the dog then pukes. As I'm cleaning that, the owner pats the dog on the head saying good boy. Не was trespassed after so at least there's that
laur3lwr3ath Зу ago I was working as a sign language interpreter in a classroom setting and the teacher's aide decided to stand between me and the student, blocking their view. I asked her to move and she told me that she was doing it on purpose so that the student didn't rely on me too much.
snailsforbreakfast Зу ago | work at a pet resort/spa. I'm checking in this lady's dog at like 7 in the morning. Real sweet lady, she has an Australian shepherd. But before I take the dog inside to his kennel for the groomers, she asks me to tell the groomers to separate whatever hair they shave off him into separate ziplock bags based on color and texture. Turns out she makes jewelry out of her dog's fur. Later in the day I bring out the dog along with probably 7 little baggies of hair and the lady was very excited. She
Lord_Matisaro Зу ago One of my employees was propositioned in a quite explicit way by the general manager of the site (like 4 levels up) on grindr. I overheard him telling another employee in a holy shit can you believe who messaged me??? way and was not offended at all but it became a whole thing. (the GM did not recognize them due to the fact they are 4 levels apart and did not interact much).
undeadgorgeous 3y ago A group of four grown men sneaking into the fitting room to smoke a joint. This would already be really, really dumb except the store they did it at was...Justice. For non-Americans and those outside the demographic, Justice was a clothing store for tween (or 8-12 year old) girls. They didn't sell anything for men at all and it was literally impossible for them to blend in. Moreover, the tops of their heads were visible over the child-sized stall curtains. We called security, they got escorted out, and we had to close to air out the windowless
ATXKLIPHURD Зу ago Part of my job is emailing bills to customers. Some companies have crazy requests on how they get their bill. One company won't pay their bill unless it's sent by mail. Не won't respond to emails. Another company will only allow 1 page scanned per attachment and only 1 attachment per email so if the bill is 5 pages. I need to scan each page individually and email them individually.
marabou22 . Зу ago Edited Зу ago Worked in HR for a non profit that hired people people who are legally blind. That was the mission. One day, two employees got into a fight. One was partially sighted and the other totally blind swinging his cane. I had four witnesses to the altercation. But they were all totally blind and thus, couldn't tell me what happened.
SleepySpookySkeleton Зу ago I work in the funeral industry, so I get to deal with new ridiculous things on a near-daily basis. For example, today | had to look for a bullet in a body bag, because the list of personal effects of a deceased that we got from the medical examiner included 'ammunition X 1.' This person was going for cremation, and bullets in a crematorium are a no-no for obvious reasons.
Plumpuddingdog 3y ago Call center setting. Someone came to me to complain that there was an inordinate amount of pubic hair on the flat top of the urinal in the men's room. Went to check and there were a remarkable amount of pubes there. Nasty. And clearly placed there by someone on purpose. Cleaned them off with a paper towel, washed hands vigorously, and continued on with my day. A couple hours later, I'm told the pubes have returned. Not quite as much as the first time, but still too much for the universe to have deposited there naturally.
cihojuda Зу ago I work at a library. The amount of people who don't bring their library card with them and then refuse to give me ID so I can look up their account is baffling. I'm just trying to prove they are who they say they are. Also a mentally ill lady once told me that Osama bin Laden wanted to steal shoes from the artist formerly known as Prince.
idontdigdinosaurs . Зу ago A coworker screaming at me for leaving food to rot in the shared fridge. It was my first day there and I hadn't even unpacked my belongings yet.

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